Published Quotes

494 quotes by 449 authors

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. — Aleister Crowley
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong… — Jonathan Davis
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. — Jacques Derrida
In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It… — Alan Dershowitz
I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers… — Junot Diaz
'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that… — James Dobson
I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe… — Paul Engle
Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing… — William Hague
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read. — Jim Harrison
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces… — Aleksandar Hemon
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a… — John Irving
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table. — Mick Jagger
I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it… — Erica Jong
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. — Erica Jong
I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the… — Tony Judt
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing… — Bil Keane
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver
I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically… — Dean Koontz
I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been… — Jonathan Kozol
If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they… — Ashton Kutcher

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