Publishers Quotes

I am my brain's publisher.

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

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.

Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

I read whatever the publisher sends me.

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.