Top 415 Publisher Quotes & Sayings

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

I am my brain's publisher.

"Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection letter". This is basically what a rejection letter is like: Hello Pathetic Moron, We read your book. It sucked. Don't send us another one. If you do, we will run over your grandmother with a bus. Don't Do It. From, Your Publisher

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher.

Certainly, I had a wonderful push from my publisher and got very lucky. I'm very aware of what it means to have a publisher back you. But your job as a writer, no matter what else is happening, is to continue to produce work-whether you're succeeding or failing.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

Outside of my work as a comic book creator and co-publisher, I'm an avid gamer.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy it before it was entirely written. And it made it easier for me and my publisher to get 'The Accident' out into the world without trying to convince people to pay attention to it the way you do for a first novel.

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.

What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [Alex] Haley was vetting - asking questions to the publisher and to the publisher's attorney regarding many of the things that Malcolm X was saying. He was worried that he would not have a book that would have the kind of sting that he wanted.

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

Selling an idea to a publisher is not as valuable as selling your audience to a publisher.

We had tried to get a couple books that were written about Ray Kroc, and one of the books, we called the publisher. The publisher actually said, "Call McDonald."

The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.

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. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

Launching Collins in the U.S. fulfills the original vision of the 1989 union of Harper & Row and William Collins. Publishing has clarified the many benefits of working as a global company. I believe that a true 21st century publisher is a global publisher. Harper Collins is well on its way.

I think that a really good agent should be able to get the right publisher, which the agent has already figured out, get as much money as she can from that publisher, and make a deal, rather than have the amount of money determine the sale. That's what the best agents do.

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama. Yeah, the publisher said that the election comic books are targeted at first-time voters and long-time virgins.

In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what's asked of you if your conscience can bear it. But know that, five years from now, as fans or prospective employers are looking over your published pages, no one will care that this story sucks because the publisher moved the deadline up or because the editor made you work an android cow into the story. All they will care about is what they see in front of them, and they will hold you responsible for it, no one else.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

I'd rather be a cartoonist. I don't want to be a publisher.

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap.

Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally.

As the publisher of FSG and the custodian of its legacy, I have an interested insider's view.

Most people do not pay attention to the publisher's imprint on a given book.

It's a fascinating world to drop a finished product on the marketplace without the intercession of a publisher.

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

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.

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.

As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.

My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.

I read whatever the publisher sends me.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English publisher because they'd been lukewarm about it and not offered enough money. The American publisher didn't like it. The Canadian publisher didn't like it... I'd been bleeding readers since my first novel, and I could see my own career going down.

When you're external to a publisher, most independent developers live on paranoia. The mainstay of every day is paranoia - every indie company believes their publisher in some way has these Machiavellian plans that will cause disaster for the game and the studio.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

In the war time many of the publishing houses were privately owned, a single publisher or a publisher and a few associates who were responsible for everything. They could take whatever risks they wanted, could essentially publish what they liked according to their taste. Publishers today are working for big corporations. They have different pressures. I don't think they can make decisions quite as independently as they used to be able to. They have more corporate and financial responsibilities weighing on them. They're not free to go broke or go to jail.

My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.