Published Quotes
494 quotes by 439 authors
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Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple…
— Tina Brown
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I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my…
— Tony Buzan
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I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
— Edmund White
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The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how…
— Tibor Fischer
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My husband, a.k.a. Swede, and I both come from athletic backgrounds, so once we identified the goal - get book published - we attacked it.…
— Kresley Cole
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump,…
— Raina Telgemeier
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I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
— David Quammen
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It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.
— Cynthia Kadohata
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My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when…
— Hallie Ephron
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Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.
— Ruth Glick
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The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published…
— Michael Redhill
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Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published…
— Julie Kagawa
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Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.
— Richard Flanagan
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All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
— Mark Crispin Miller
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Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.
— Gordon Smith
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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows…
— Elizabeth George
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the…
— Wislawa Szymborska
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
— Cao Yu
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The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe…
— Francis William Aston
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