“ When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. George Bernard Shaw
“ I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good. Richard Curtis
“ 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… Hunter S. Thompson
“ We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it. Allen Lane
“ Excerpt from Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book AwardsHard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-s… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers. Piers Anthony
“ I have female friends that get mails from publishers that read 'Hey. I heard you write about sex. This is a very popular topic now'. Martijn Benders
“ Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on mon… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Bible publishers are not selling Bibles. What they're selling is that iconic idea of the Bible. Their value-added biblical content promises to provide answers to questions, solutions to problems, and… Timothy Beal
“ It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It’s creepy, but had good… Shannon L. Alder
“ Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he'll never forget. Stephanie Bond
“ Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books. Johnny Rich
“ But really it says everything that’s wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a sex and shopping novel that wasn’t even written by one of those footballe… Sarra Manning
“ I write to find strength.I write to become the person that hides inside me.I write to light the way through the darkness for others.I write to be seen and heard.I write to be near those I love.I write… Shannon L. Alder
“ I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter… Jack McClelland
“ It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected. Elizabeth Clements
