Decided Quote by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say,…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

— Charles Stross

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing,…

— Peter Straub

It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most writers as…

— James M. Gavin

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on. But routinely…

— Philip Roth

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

— Annie Dillard

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again…

— Justin Cronin

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

— Glen Duncan

And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I…

— Chuck Klosterman

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

— Augusten Burroughs

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