Drudgery Quote by Tanith Lee

In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish…

— Tanith Lee

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM,…

— Susie Bright

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something…

— Nell Zink

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at.…

— Katie Piper

“Writers live with fear. Some writers cannot deal with the fear, and so they quit or refuse to publish. In order to write, you…

— Patrick Mcmanus

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

— Patrick White

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write.…

— J. D. Salinger

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all…

— Jerry Spinelli

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may…

— Thomas Wolfe