Published Quotes

494 quotes by 449 authors

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them. — Whitley Strieber
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story… — Ian Rankin
My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money… — Ian Rankin
The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than… — Burt Rutan
I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before… — James Rollins
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published. — Rudy Rucker
Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay. — Ali Smith
There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it,… — Dana Spiotta
I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day.… — Karrine Steffans
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. — Dan Simmons
New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said… — Joanna Southcott
I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between… — Laini Taylor
It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry… — Laini Taylor
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
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have… — Stacy Schiff
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie. — Andrew Vachss
I'd never been published when I was young. — Jack Vance
I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the… — Kenneth Lonergan
I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much… — Richard K. Morgan
A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even… — Charlotte Bronte

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449 authors contributed a total of 494 Published Quotes, led by these top contributors: