Inspirational Quote by Denis Johnson

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And…

— Robert B. Parker

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.

— Neil Gaiman

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

— Anonymous

Make sure in your message that it's clean, if it's already published, give credit to whom it belongs so that way I can do…

— Anonymous

For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only an option.…

— Daniel Kehlmann

There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they…

— Anonymous

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…

— Robert B. Parker

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

— Rumaan Alam

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.

— Anonymous

I tell my students all the time is, for better or worse, no publisher is going to come wrench your story out of your…

— Melissa Febos

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue…

— Natalie Goldberg