Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.
Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.
I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.
I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.
I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.
It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell.
Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.
The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.
After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.
'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience.
Poll results published with a clear byline for the research reflect a higher degree of confidence in the survey.
Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.
As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.
I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
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.
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
I got my first book deal when I was in college, but it was published in Germany, and I could never actually read it.
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.
I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.
WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
When the 'Book of Mormon' was first published, some of those who believed in it taught it to others and testified of it.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.
I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.