I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for…

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short…

— Andrew Vachss

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, 'What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?' I…

— Billie Eilish

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

— Mason Cooley

[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused…

— Joseph Priestley

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years…

— Paul Kane

I'd just like to point out that almost all of these stories in this collection were rejected by some publication at one time or…

— Arthur Bradford

Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and the Internet…

— L. Tom Perry

In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose…

— Clive James

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure…

— Virgil Suarez

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment…

— Herman Melville

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this…

— William Poundstone

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

— Anne Lamott

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis