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494 quotes by 449 authors

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't… — Alice Walker
If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number… — Bill Walsh
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail. — David Wilkerson
I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or… — Robert Winston
Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed. — Tom Wolfe
Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have… — Lynda Resnick
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.] — Agatha Christie
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time… — Ann Patchett
Donâ€™t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writingâ€”and then putting your words… — Sharon Creech
Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to manâ€™s destruction. Failing that,… — Walker Percy
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile,… — John Gardner
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. — Julia Quinn
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde
Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over… — Sam Harris
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and… — Orson Scott Card
Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything. — Steve Martin
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and… — Anne Lamott
So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and… — Tracy Chevalier
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"â€”"not permitted"â€”"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends… — Paulo Coelho

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