Done Quote by Carolyn Forche

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may…

— Thomas Wolfe

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim

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

— Anonymous

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

— Charles Stross

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and…

— Anonymous

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

— Dan Poynter

“Not everything written is worth being published.”

— Anymonous

“A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.”

— K. Sean Harris

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

— Anne Lamott

“Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!”

— Tony Jones

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

— Cynthia Ozick