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.
Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.
Richard Curtis
7.
No, my publisher has always done the marketing.
Jean M. Auel
9.
No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.
Dave Sim
10.
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
11.
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Fay Weldon
12.
Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.
Mathias Dopfner
13.
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
14.
No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.
Dorothy L. Sayers
15.
You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.
George Sand
16.
A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.
Oscar Wilde
19.
The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.
Steve Case
20.
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
A. J. Liebling
21.
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
22.
Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
Steven Amsterdam
23.
Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.
Anne Bernays
24.
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
Mark Millar
25.
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
J.A. Konrath
26.
Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
Willa Cather