“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.”
“Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.”
“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.”
“What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.”
“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics.”
“Being self-published makes me no less "published" than the authors who are with publishing companies.”