Art Quote by Brenda Ueland

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

— Augusten Burroughs

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

— Victor Hugo

I have written much more than I have had published.

— Deepti Naval

Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at…

— Irving Wallace

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to…

— Lee Child

To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book will never…

— Markus Zusak

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I…

— Augusten Burroughs

I have many writings that I would not like it if they were published.

— Shakira

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

— Anonymous

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

— Christine Feehan

“Even if you never get published, no one can take away your joy in writing, which is why you should be doing it anyway.”

— Jennifer Dechiara

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

— Frederick Busch