Delay Quote by Elinor Glyn

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

— Chinua Achebe

Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.

— Robert B. Parker

If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real…

— Steven Pressfield

I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.

— William H. Gass

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

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

— Kate Atkinson

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

— Joss Whedon

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

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

— Antonio Machado

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

— Denis Johnson

Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your…

— Sharon Creech

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

— Thomas B. Macaulay