Depends Quote by Janet Burroway

“We’ve already said the difference between success and failure in most things — and self-publishing is no exception — is a matter of keeping…

— Sean Platt

What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up…

— William Hazlitt

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

For me, just being published feels like success.

— Samantha Shannon

When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good,…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in…

— Timothy White

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be…

— Andrew Vachss

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

— Thomas A. Edison

I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.

— Ava Max

Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

— Peter Drucker