Helping Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

— Anonymous

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

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and…

— Anonymous

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

— Frederick Busch

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write.…

— J. D. Salinger

Getting published was like God stamping you 'acceptable,' and all of a sudden you can start writing for other places.

— Steven Rinella

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish…

— J. K. Rowling

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

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

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

— Cynthia Ozick

“Writers live with fear. Some writers cannot deal with the fear, and so they quit or refuse to publish. In order to write, you…

— Patrick Mcmanus

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

— George Singleton