2.
I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.
Mark Millar
3.
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
P. D. James
4.
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
Laurence J. Peter
5.
No, my publisher has always done the marketing.
Jean M. Auel
6.
Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.
Richard Curtis
9.
No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.
Dave Sim
10.
Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
Steven Amsterdam
11.
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
Mark Millar
12.
Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.
Anne Bernays
13.
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
J.A. Konrath
14.
Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
Willa Cather
15.
I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.
Dean Koontz
16.
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Fay Weldon
17.
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
V. S. Naipaul
18.
Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.
Mathias Dopfner
19.
No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.
Dorothy L. Sayers
20.
You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.
George Sand
21.
A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.
Oscar Wilde
24.
The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.
Steve Case
25.
I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.
Marco Arment
26.
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
A. J. Liebling