This paper draws a portrait of a Quebecois female publisher in the 1980s, Simone Bussières, by interpreting her correspondence with the writers related to the literary collection “Le choix de...”. With this collection, Bussières aims to make Quebecois masterworks accessible to students and school teachers. To do this, she asks writers to select and order the most representative texts of their work. Through content analysis of letters, the article demonstrates that this collaboration between Simone Bussières and writers such as Félix Leclerc, Clément Marchand, Simone Routier and Benoît Lacroix is established on the basis of a friendship and affection that is a work ethic for the publisher.