“ They (the publishers) would be ecstatic, I just refuse to. You can't repeat a great act. ”
- Colleen McCullough- Copy
- 1.8K
“ As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 4K
“ No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher… ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.9K
“ In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 3.9K
“ If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing press. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Obviously the publishers, because of historical curiosity or the significance of it, I think expected more,... It obviously was not as much as some of my other books, but I don't know how much a writer can get involved in trying to second-guess that. ”
- Bob Woodward- Copy
- 3K
“ To me, a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called? ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.7K
“ After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. ”
- George Ade- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher. ”
- Jim Bouton- Copy
- 41
“ When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it. ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper. ”
- Geoffrey Faber- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I am a publisher-a hybrid creature: one part stargazer, one part gambler, one part businessman, one part midwife and three parts optimist. ”
- Cass Canfield- Copy
- 3.1K
“ As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher -admittedly a daunting task - it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list. ”
- Olivia Goldsmith- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to get terms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists. ”
- Olivia Goldsmith- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 357
“ It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic. ”
- Alexander Hamilton- Copy
- 766
“ The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 52
“ The role of the publisher… has changed from seller of a product to consumers, to gatherer of consumer for advertisers… The role of the reader changes from sovereign consumer to advertiser bait. ”
- Vincent P. Norris- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
- 1K
“ If anything, I thought - and this view was shared by my publisher - that The Hours was going to be my arty little book and sell maybe a few thousand copies, and march with whatever dignity it could muster to the remainders tables. ”
- Michael Cunningham- Copy
- 3.3K
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