Publisher Quotes

Johannes Gutenberg

Stan Lee

Hugh Hefner

Christoph Martin Wieland

Joseph Pulitzer

William Randolph Hearst

Aldus Manutius

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown.... It is a city that offers me more people — more different kinds of people — than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

Katharine Graham

There is no study which requires more continuous and undisturbed attention than the study of complicated statistical problems.

Georg Joachim Göschen

I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.

Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.

No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.

Timothy Shay Arthur

The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.

James R. A. Bailey

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.

Andrzej Stasiuk

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

MARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA, A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE, AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S A SERENDIPITOUS FEAST FOR THE MIND, THE EYE, AND THE IMAGINATION, A LITERATE CELEBRATION OF UNBRIDLED CREATIVITY, COUPLED WITH A TOUCH OF REBELLION AND AN INSOLENT DESIRE TO SPIT IN THE EYE OF THE DRAGON.

The relationship between a bookstore and its patrons is more than commerce, more than business; it's an emotional and spiritual connection.

Authors are easy enough to get on with – if you are fond of children.

Michael Joseph (publisher)

More than one newspaper has been ruined by the brilliant writer in the editor's chair.

William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose

Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.'? Whoever it was, I agree with him.

A. Edward Newton

We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

On journalism

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge to the ordinary visitor; and the traveller is therefore recommended to visit Cambridge first, or to omit it altogether if he cannot visit both.

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

Lila Bell Wallace

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Francis Pharcellus Church

I'm also told that the latest popular game in America is called Incest—all the family can join in!

Rupert Hart-Davis

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination...