I have written - often several times - every word I have…

I didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.

— Judith Viorst

I've been written off more times than some of the government's tax returns but I just keep plodding along.

— James Haskell

I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless…

— Robert Rankin

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

— Jeffrey Archer

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

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

— Amish Tripathi

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

— Andrew Vachss