Exposed Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

“What I have revealed is an orgy of depravity and venality, and if there is any attempt to stop the publishing of this book,…

— Jacques Pauw

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

— Ben Nicholson

In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view of the…

— Catherine Camus

“What is it like to a be published author? Image clawing your beating heart from your chest and flopping it onto a plate for…

— Vallory Vance

“Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.”

— Mark W Boyer

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

— Neil Gaiman

My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of…

— James Salter

There's still, even now, a part of me that can't believe that I got published. That part of me has never gone away.

— Kate DiCamillo

I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn’t realized it (the original book) had survived, so was surprised…

— Harper Lee

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it…

— Don DeLillo

“publication would have been a severe embarrassment”

— Stav Sherez

I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

— Patrick deWitt