No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay. — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published. — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded,… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation… — Louis Stokes Copy Share Image
How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers on my refrigerator… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
I was first published in the newspaper put out by School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I was a student.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Hollywood loves pre-validation. Even if someone has a property that was first published as a comic book that sold only 5,000 copies,… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
“I have written - often several times - every word I have ever published.” — Vladimir Nabok Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like being pleased with your own work - and this is the best stage - before it is published… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special. — David Amram Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet. — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories. — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
