Allowed Quote by Svetlana Alexievich

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

— Alice Walker

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

— Jennifer Donnelly

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

— Alan Garner

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at…

— Julian Assange

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

— Stephen King

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

— Asne Seierstad

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have,…

— Steve Martin

I am not sure when it became de rigueur for presidential candidates to publish a work between hard covers, but nobody now runs for…

— Anne Applebaum

I didn't care where my works were published.

— Ben Shahn

I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it…

— Michael Ignatieff

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off…

— Jonathan Coe