Publishers Quotes

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

Music, Everybody, Possession

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
Paulo Coelho

Book, Free, Sales

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

Stuff, Editors, Showing

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
Barbara Bush

Book, Lost, After

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
Doris Lessing

After, Big, Started

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade

Down, After, Write

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
Robert Benchley

Time, Book, Him

According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it.
Jay Leno

Money, Sex, Book

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly

Life, Fear, Become

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco

Easy, Read, Myth

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
A. N. Wilson

Life, Write, Books

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
C. S. Forester

Thought, Write, Word

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.
Matt Groening

Daily, Newspaper, Treated

Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.
Lev Grossman

Smart, Book, Different

The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Eduardo Galeano

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
Wilbur Smith

Real, Again, Novel

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.
Lee Child

Job, Long, Writing

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.
Robert Caro

Work, Fool, Yourself

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Successful, Trying, Write

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Fear, Writers, Rush

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Books, United, Works

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Walter Jon Williams

Good, Someone, Why

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.
Piers Anthony

Bad, Done, Read

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.
Piers Anthony

Moment, Accept, Year

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
Piers Anthony

Simply, Dealing, Regardless

Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.
Anthony Horowitz

Change, Time, Strange

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.
Anthony Horowitz

Everywhere, Squeezed

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
Louise Brown

Down, Everyone, Dancing

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
Louise Brown

Book, Same, Write

Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.
John Hodgman

Love, Find, Common

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