3 Quotes by Alfred A. Knopf

It is hard to remember that every forgotten book (and we have published hundreds such) once seemed to its publisher something of value and likely to live for a long time.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.