Published Quotes

494 quotes by 449 authors

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. — Melinda Rucker Haynes
I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so… — Orhan Pamuk
Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it. — Nick Bostrom
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. — Isabel Allende
When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study… — Sheri Fink
For me, just being published feels like success. — Samantha Shannon
Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades.… — Kristina McMorris
Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing… — Kent Haruf
I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me. — Jonathan Evison
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories. — Christine Feehan
I never thought my ideas would actually get published. — Amish Tripathi
The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good… — Noam Chomsky
Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when… — Paul Hawken
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very… — Eleanor Catton
WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private. — Rebecca MacKinnon
I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books. — Caroline Leavitt
The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on… — Aaron Swartz
I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published. — Claire Tomalin
I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer… — Lou Holtz
It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored. — Cathy Marie Buchanan

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