Quotes About Publishing

I think women need to hear more encouragement in any field, because I see it - I teach creative writing. And even though it's mostly women in the room, they're not often - or they didn't used to be the ones who went on to publish books. I know this sounds like a tautology, but encouragement is the key.

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

Every day, we publish articles at 'The Federalist' with which I disagree.

The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

There is a certain belief that so long as something is published in cyberspace there is no need to respect the laws of contempt or libel. This is mistaken.

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

I spent five years of my childhood in Port Elgin and came back to spend another five years of my young adulthood there as well, including the years in which I was first published.

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.

The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.

I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in rock band places and working men's clubs, where you wouldn't expect to find poetry. I ploughed a lonely furrow.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.