Deal Quote by Paolo Nutini

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

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

— Steven Rinella

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing…

— Jodi Picoult

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

— George Singleton

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

— David Baldacci

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 think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

— Sarah Dessen

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue…

— Natalie Goldberg

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

I sometimes talk to people who think I got published because I was an editor, or because I was an agent, and I have…

— Garth Nix

It's my belief that I was a writer - a very hardworking writer - well before I was published. I did care what others…

— Min Jin Lee

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something…

— Ariel Gore