Not everything written is worth being published.

“I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.”

— Carla H. Krueger

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

— Joseph Haydn

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

— Tom Robbins

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very…

— Steven Erikson

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but…

— Isabel Allende

The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now…

— Arthur Phillips

Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that…

— Pat Conroy

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

— Andrew Vachss

Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say:…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Getting your work published is a major struggle.

— Gulzar

The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly…

— John Hull

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

— Amish Tripathi

When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about…

— Rick Perlstein

“There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.”

— Anonymous

I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right…

— James Gunn