Top 467 Publishers Quotes & Sayings

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

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

Publishers and record companies love a broken heart.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

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

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are still my publishers and are like my musical family, my second family - they took me in and taught me what a good song is.

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.

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

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.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as practiced in the publishing industry. There need to be grants and government support and a few publishers, mainstream and independent, who are not afraid to challenge American readership. We need to build a network of translators, publishers and readers. We hope that our annual anthology might provide an upsurge in interest for European fiction and then, as we publish it every year, become a habit to many readers.

Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.

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

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

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 getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.

Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.

For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of that comes from my experience as a print publisher.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.

Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

I don't chase publishers. Publishers chase me.

Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're going to expect me to say that I would love to see more books by Native American authors and African-American authors and Arab-American authors. But when a teacher or librarian says this to publishers, it can have a profound effect.

We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.

It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

I will not buck to pressure of delivering to publishers.

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

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

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

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

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.

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.

Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers.

Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's where we make our money. We sell book launch packages to authors and publishers and really help accelerate, build that early buzz that a book needs to succeed when it launches and accelerate that growth through ads on the site.

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.

Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.

Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

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.

Are companies like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter open technology platforms or publishers with curated content? For years, Big Tech giants have tried to have it both ways, exploiting special legal protections to enrich themselves while behaving like publishers without the liabilities.

People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

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