Book Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay Download Open image “A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Eye Pants Persons Publish Writing
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. . . . If it is a good book… — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love whatever it is you're publishing. Both on the book side and especially on the magazine side, I've had editors that I did not get the same feeling from. That feeling of, "This is something I believe in, I… — Clancy Martin Copy Share
“To publish in the sense of making a book available to the public is easy – and never easier than it is today, when texts posted online could be said to be ‘published’ in some sense. But to publish in the sense of making a book known to the public, visible to them and attracting a sufficient quantum of their… — John B. Thompson Copy Share
it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author… — Cass Canfield Copy Share Image
People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this perfect head,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“But, sure, the sky is big, I said; Miles and miles above my head; So here upon my back I'll lie And look my… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
