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.

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

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

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.

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

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.

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

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

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

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

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

I read whatever the publisher sends me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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