Publishers Quotes

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

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.

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

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

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.