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Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you. -- P. D. James
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not. -- J. A. Konrath
Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently. -- Mathias Dopfner
Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. -- Paulo Coelho
Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade. -- Paul Bowles
Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller. -- John Updike
Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy. -- Anne Bernays
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. -- George Ade
Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define. -- Chet Williamson
Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define. -- Chet Williamson
Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones. -- Richard Dawkins
Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality. -- J. A. Konrath
I don't use the term 'miracle' lightly. I don't believe in God, or reincarnation, or destiny, or the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes. -- Rick Reynolds
Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is. -- James Purdy
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant. -- Margaret Atwood
Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it. -- Rose Macaulay
Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book. -- Robert Barr
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days. -- Laura Hillenbrand
There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one. -- Denise Mina
Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material. -- Rigoberto Gonzalez
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
Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something. -- Jay McInerney
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day. -- Philip Kerr
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it. -- Cynthia Ozick
In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last question I consecrate my book, Problems of the Chinese Revolution (issued by the Pioneer Publishers, New York 1932). -- Leon Trotsky
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence. -- James Surowiecki
Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three key parties in commercial media: the audience, the author/creator and the marketer. -- John Battelle
Companies with aspirations to be larger publishers - Kabam, Kixeye, even Zynga - are moving aggressively off the Facebook platform to mobile and the open Web. Publishers aren't convinced that the costs of being on Facebook are worth it. -- Mitch Lasky
As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt. -- Calvin Trillin
There's a reason publishers don't build on top of social platforms: publishers are an independent lot, and they naturally understand the value of owning your own domain. Publishers don't want to be beholden to the shifting sands of inscrutable platform policies. -- John Battelle
Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your arse, love, and sign it in person. Publishers and circumstance made you a bestselling author. Give a little back. -- Nicholas Royle
Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am. -- Charles Frazier
Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box. -- Jay Leno
Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently? -- Tamora Pierce
In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath. -- Rachel Sklar
The walls are the publishers of the poor. -- Eduardo Galeano
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. -- John Lennon
Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name. -- Gerard Way
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money. -- Chad Harbach
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. -- Cyril Connolly
Game studios, developers, and major publishers need to vocally speak up against the harassment of women and say this behavior is unacceptable. -- Anita Sarkeesian
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence. -- Nicholson Baker
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
Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop. -- Virginia Postrel
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
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books. -- Margaret Mahy
The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing fiction - my final book never ends up looking like the synopsis. -- Michelle Gagnon
There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy. -- Beck
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate. -- P. C. Cast
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript. -- Kiran Desai
My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. -- Belle Boyd
I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive. -- Natalie Massenet
I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers. -- Graeme Base
You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publishers rate him very, very highly, His books usually go straight to the bestseller number one spot on the day of publication. He is a hugely important writer as far as HarperCollins, his publishers, are concerned. -- Tony Ross
In a day when broadcasters and publishers have rather free access into our homes, we must seek clean, uplifting entertainment, whether on television, videos, movies, magazines, books, and other printed material. We should be very selective and choose only those things that meet the test of being virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will. -- Helen Garner
Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan. -- Richard Bach
I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok? -- John Burdett
Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out. -- Anthony Horowitz
Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes. -- Willa Cather
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. -- Jackie Collins
Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing. -- Jasper Fforde
Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. -- Richard Curtis
I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. -- Christopher Hitchens
My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers. -- Mario Benedetti
When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven. -- Wendy Kaminer
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things. -- Umberto Eco
No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. -- Laurence J. Peter
Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero. -- Richard Curtis
You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike. -- George Sand
Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it -- John Lennon
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. -- Donald E. Westlake
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot. -- Kinky Friedman
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. -- Stephen Kinzer
Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know. -- Henry David Thoreau
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers. -- Horace
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. -- A. J. Liebling
Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers. -- Thomas M. Disch
I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars. -- Tony Ross
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. -- John Farrar
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers. -- Charlotte Cotton
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. -- Fay Weldon
I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help. -- A. N. Wilson
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too. -- Mark Millar
For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book. -- David Dunn
We are publishers of content and consumers of content at the same time. (D. Abbot, J.Hegarty) -- Gordon Torr
What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit. -- Piers Anthony
Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers. -- Erik Qualman
It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers. -- James J. Kilpatrick
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. -- Anthony Burgess
Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw. -- Anthony Horowitz
Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company. -- Nick Denton
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. -- Ed McBain
If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts? -- Dan Poynter
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. -- Louise Brown
Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies. -- Jack Canfield
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. -- David Baldacci
I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away. -- Paul Auster
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. -- A. N. Wilson
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. -- Wilbur Smith
We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers. -- Don Bluth
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
There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries. -- Scott McClanahan
Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists. -- Daniel Ek
Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website. -- Mike McCue
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. -- Charles Baxter
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. -- Jason Epstein
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. -- John Thomas Sladek
I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry. -- Ryan Lilly
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. -- John Thomas Sladek
The big publishers want someone they can send on the Jewish book circuit, somebody the old ladies can see marrying their granddaughters. -- Joshua Cohen
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
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
Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three. -- Heather Brooke

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