Publish Quotes
261 Publish quotes by 228 unique authors
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
— Mary Oliver
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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like…
— Jacob Bronowski
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I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.
— William H. Gass
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When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
— Taslima Nasrin
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It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the…
— Audrey Tautou
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And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few…
— Peter Sotos
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Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.
— Derek Bok
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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story…
— Anne McCaffrey
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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
— Philip Roth
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
— Kenneth Lee Pike
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One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels,…
— Nicholson Baker
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write,…
— Wendy Cope
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Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being…
— Wim Wenders
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I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested…
— Arthur Keith
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I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.
— Sophie Kinsella
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Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the…
— James Lee Burke
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When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel…
— Stephen Chbosky
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It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the…
— Galileo Galilei
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New…
— Rachel Gibson
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I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.
— Daniel J. Bernstein
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men to look askance at the patenting of…
— Elihu Thomson
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