Publisher Quotes

“Mr Wisdom,' said the girl who had led him into the presence.
'Ah,' said Howard Saxby, and there was a pause of perhaps three minutes, during which his needles clicked busily. 'Wisdom, did she say?'
'Yes. I wrote "Cocktail Time"'
'You couldn't have done better,' said Mr Saxby cordially. 'How's your wife, Mr Wisdom?'
Cosmo said he had no wife.
'Surely?'
"I'm a bachelor.'
Then Wordsworth was wrong. He said you were married to immortal verse. Excuse me a moment,' murmured Mr Saxby, applying himself to the sock again. 'I'm just turning the heel. Do you knit?'
'No.'
'Sleep does. It knits the ravelled sleave of care.'

(After a period of engrossed knitting, Cosmo coughs loudly to draw attention to his presence.)
'Goodness, you made me jump!' he (Saxby) said. 'Who are you?'
'My name, as I have already told you, is Wisdom'
'How did you get in?' asked Mr Saxby with a show of interest.
'I was shown in.'
'And stayed in. I see, Tennyson was right. Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. Take a chair.'
'I have.'
'Take another,' said Mr Saxby hospitably.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.”
― Alexei Maxim Russell

“Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.”
― Ryan Lilly

“Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Every small business has to become a publisher—a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.”
― Jim Blasingame, The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance

“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“However, all writing, all writers who wish to be
published, it, they are the same at the core. All of them want to be read, remembered, cherished.”
― Rebecca Rowland, Shagging the Boss

“Human bodies wear down," he continued . "They give out. No one is immortal, not without help. All writers wish to live forever, don't they? Even if they won't admit it. They vomit up these sacred parts of themselves, wrap those shards in paper, and pray the remnants will exist long after they are decomposing in the grave.”
― Rebecca Rowland, Shagging the Boss

“Before it occurred to me that I might actually need an agent, I had generated well over three million dollars' worth of income, a good deal of it for the publisher.”
― Stephen King

“The BEST revenge is to be fabulous.”
― Angela T. Jones

“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

“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.”
― Lucas J. Robak