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It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers. — James J. Kilpatrick

Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned. — Malorie Blackman

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

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name. — Gerard Way

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

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it. — Rose Macaulay

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. — Evan Hunter

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

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not. — J.A. Konrath

Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company. — Nick Denton

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre. — Emma Donoghue

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy. — Anne Bernays

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant. — Margaret Atwood

United States HarperCollins Publishers Inc. 195 Broadway — Erin Hunter

gastrointestinal problems — Alfajiri Publishers

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen. — Dean Koontz

Most importantly, love each other deeply, because love cause many sins to be forgiven. - 1 Peter 4:8 — Thomas Nelson Publishers

No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. — Robert Gottlieb

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that. — Dean Koontz

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies. — Jack Canfield

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money. — Aleksandar Hemon

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money. — Buchi Emecheta

The publishers are idiots or criminals — Wolfgang Reisig

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. — Donald E. Westlake

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world
they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one. — C.N. Bovee

The French translation of 'a black hole has no hair' is so obscene that French publishers resisted it vigorously, to no avail. — Kip S. Thorne

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

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

The walls are the publishers of the poor. — Eduardo Galeano

101 Reasons why its great to be a woman:
We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition. — Summersdale Publishers

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

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

...graced by some delicate, perceptive and fine-boned writing, is at the heart of the book, and Creel gets it all just right. — Publishers Weekly

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. — Louise Brown

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I don't use the term 'miracle' lightly. I don't believe in God, or reincarnation, or destiny, or the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes. — Rick Reynolds

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

Game studios, developers, and major publishers need to vocally speak up against the harassment of women and say this behavior is unacceptable. — Anita Sarkeesian

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think. — Amish Tripathi

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

Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers. — Michael A. Stackpole

My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 27 For — Thomas Nelson Publishers

All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie. — Orna Ross

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write. — Laurell K. Hamilton

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. — Lee Child

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

Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject. — E.B. White

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

Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website. — Mike McCue

I 1wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. — Thomas Nelson Publishers

Dear God, I praise you for turning my seeds of hope into a fantastic harvest of blessings. Help me tell others of your excellent gifts. Amen. — Bethany House Publishers

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

The literary publishers were the Lords of Culture, the master parasites sitting on top of this swarming dunghill. — Jonathan Galassi

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing. — Jasper Fforde

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money. — Chad Harbach

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

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. — Matt Groening

Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak. — Michelle M. Pillow

Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers. — Erik Qualman

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists. — Daniel Ek

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

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

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales. — Michael A. Stackpole

Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while. — Victoria Strauss

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. — Laurence J. Peter

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. — Paulo Coelho

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing. — Annalee Newitz

Dear God, you really do deserve my thanksgiving and praise. You are worthy of honor and glory. May your name be lifted high forever. Amen. — Bethany House Publishers

To be rigorous means that the best people need not worry about their positions, leaving them to concentrate fully on doing their best work. — Wilson Publishers

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year. — Robert Benchley

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four. — Alan Davies

As writers, we should remind ourselves, and each other, that Jane Austen and JK Rowling got rejected by publishers, too. — Joanne Van Leerdam

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

most of the books available in Kindle Unlimited are from self-publishers, and most of them are unknown to you. — Max Blackwell

Morgan was sent copies and decided to sue both publishers for libel. — David Cordingly

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

I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime. — Toyin Odutola

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. — Oscar Wilde

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. — Wilbur Smith

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out. — Anthony Horowitz

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

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave. — Frederick Busch

We are publishers of content and consumers of content at the same time. (D. Abbot, J.Hegarty) — Gordon Torr

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers. — Charlotte Cotton

Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw. — Anthony Horowitz

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it. — Warren Spector

I am my brain's publisher. — Philippe Starck

Keep a close watch on yourself and on your teaching. Stay true to what is right. 1 TIMOTHY 4:16 NLT — Bethany House Publishers

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. — A. N. Wilson

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

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

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

Don't cry for publishers, paper books ain't dying. — Declan Conner

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

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it — John Lennon

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. — John Farrar

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

adamant. 'They would be the wrong publishers for you.' Later, after — Salman Rushdie