“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.”
“Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.”
“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.”
“A company author bombs from the sky like the Air Force. A self-published author wins the battle by foot.”
“Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.”
“My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.”