After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided…

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

— Elmore Leonard

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine…

— Joe R. Lansdale

A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in…

— Jacqueline Woodson

You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much, you do…

— Anne Hutchinson

There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity…

— David Brewster

The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should…

— Anonymous

Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our…

— Samuel Adams

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

— Mira Grant

“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will…

— Pierre De Fermat

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…

— Marcel Duchamp

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

— Joseph Addison

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most…

— Tacitus

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden