Published Quotes
494 quotes by 449 authors
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some…
— Eberhard Weber
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An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the…
— Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but,…
— Neil Cross
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In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of…
— Herman Kahn
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Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.
— Lewis Buzbee
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Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend…
— Robert Orben
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Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should…
— Stephen Charnock
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I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well.…
— Sigrid Undset
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If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will…
— Antonya Nelson
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Marketing starts even before our books are published.
— Heather Hart
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The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions. It remains the most published and most read book in the…
— Bernard Ramm
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the…
— Barbara Tuchman
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I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title.…
— Alexander Shulgin
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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had…
— Gao Xingjian
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I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what…
— Neil Jordan
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Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the…
— Lori Perkins
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My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s…
— Alejandro Amenabar
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...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory…
— Tim Bray
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Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults observed in the…
— Julian Aleksandrowicz
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When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily…
— Sydney J. Harris
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