Quotes About Publishing

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

I'd never been published when I was young.

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.

Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.

I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published.

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'

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.

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks.

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.