The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

- Mark Millar

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

- Walt Handelsman

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

- Umberto Eco

When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.

- Richard Ben Cramer

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

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

- Peter Brimelow

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

- Paulo Coelho

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

- Michael A. Stackpole

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

- Mario Benedetti

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

- Amanda Hocking

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

- Jasper Fforde

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

- Jackie Collins

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

- John Updike

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I don't chase publishers. Publishers chase me.

- Eric Walters

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

- Eduardo Galeano

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

- Christopher Hitchens