Published Quotes

494 quotes by 449 authors

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and… — Tanith Lee
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication.… — Robert B. Parker
I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then… — Holly Black
An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was… — Maeve Binchy
Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's… — Tama Janowitz
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted… — Nicholson Baker
Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year. — Edward Tufte
I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same -… — Nicholson Baker
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty… — John Sayles
Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is… — Bernice Johnson Reagon
I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence.… — Howard Gardner
Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their… — Steve Berry
I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than… — Suzanne Brockmann
My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter,… — Louis Begley
Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took… — Mikhail Bulgakov
I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was… — Amanda Burton
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. — Antony Beevor
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to… — Linwood Barclay
Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day.… — Linwood Barclay
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't… — Anne Carson

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