Published Quotes

494 quotes by 449 authors

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969. — Jilly Cooper
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix. — Vasily Smyslov
If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published. — Archibald MacLeish
Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got lucky… — David Bergen
The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your… — Cherie Carter-Scott
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published. — Jon McGregor
I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and… — Heidi Julavits
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians… — Marcia Angell
A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of… — Marcia Angell
The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages + CD-ROM, published… — Philip Greenspun
The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind,… — John Farrar
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine. — Ben Goldacre
I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author. — Paul Harding
We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is… — Zakaria Tamer
It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was… — Lisa Alther
Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the… — Dick Bruna
Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to… — Frank Smith
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What… — Kwame Dawes
I fully understood what I was doing when I shot the president. I realized that I was sacrificing my life. I am willing to take… — Leon Czolgosz
No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you want published and… — Mary Ellen Mark

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