Finals Quote by David Douglas Duncan

“Whose book is it anyway? The hardest thing a writer has to learn is that once you publish a book, it's no longer truly…

— Julie Bertagna

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

— Rudy Rucker

“Even if you never get published, no one can take away your joy in writing, which is why you should be doing it anyway.”

— Jennifer Dechiara

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

“A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.”

— K. Sean Harris

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

— Nell Freudenberger

When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good,…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that’s one of…

— Fernando Pessoa

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in…

— Timothy White

I think with every writer there are two people there.

— Hugh Leonard

“It doesn't matter how a novel was printed. What matters are the words in between the pages.”

— Giuseppe Bianco