As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before - are steadily tightening the screws, they feel more and more that they get to call the shots.

If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead.

When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won't be publishable anymore.

William T. Vollmann Quotes