publisher quotes

Now Barabbas was a publisher.

-Thomas Campbell
Attributed. Quoted in Samuel Smiles  A Publisher and his Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the late John Murray (1891), vol.1, ch.14. The quote is sometimes attributed to Byron.

Gutenburg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

- (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan
  In the Guardian Weekly,12  Jun.

In this country it is rare for anyone, let alone a publisher, to take writers seriously.

- Anthony Dymoke Powell
  In the DailyTelegraph, 8 Feb.

One of the signs of Napoleon'sgreatnessaccording to a sociologist who recently wrote to our publishing houseis that he once had a publisher shot.

- Siegfried Unseld
  TheAuthor and his Publisher (translated by H and H Hannum,1980), p.1.