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494 quotes by 449 authors

History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards… — Winston Churchill
Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence and abuse during… — David Schneider
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11 — Sara Paretsky
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and… — Gwendolyn Brooks
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last… — Paul Muldoon
The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published. — Elliott Erwitt
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in… — Aaron Swartz
I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that… — Ursula Hegi
One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up. — Cleo Moore
Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published. — Patrick Kavanagh
I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great… — Jackie Collins
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. — Irvine Welsh
I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be,… — Richard Russo
Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get… — Haki R. Madhubuti
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You… — Walter Mosley
When a new book is published, read an old one. — Samuel Rogers
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. — Lynn Abbey
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to… — Lisa Alther
If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it… — Robert B. Parker

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