My publisher told me that the number of readers of this book will be inversely proportional to the number of equations it contains.
No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of interest does to a new author!
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Publishers are just middlemen. That's all. If artists could remember that more often, they'd save themselves a lot of aggrevation.