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Democrats should never publicly criticize Obama.
~ Jack Schlossberg
I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
~ Taslima Nasrin
I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.'
~ Ellen Datlow
Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but of course nobody wanted to publish another story about a family, unless it was extraordinary. When I began writing about my life as a programmer, however, people were interested.
~ Ellen Ullman
We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9.
~ Annalee Newitz
Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
~ Aleister Crowley
I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the readers and they will derive all sorts of interpretations.
~ Liu Cixin
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
~ Charles Keating
I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989.
~ Amor Towles
When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.
~ Jane Smiley
I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.
~ Jim Harrison
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
~ John Clayton
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
~ Taslima Nasrin
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
~ Jilly Cooper
Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.
~ Edward Tufte
On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.
~ Jonathan Shapiro
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
~ Antony Beevor
I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.
~ Denise Mina
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.
~ Lauren Greenfield
I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.
~ Ricky Jay
'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!
~ Alison Weir
Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction novels. He campaigns vigorously on the politics of the digital age.
~ Tim Harford
When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries.
~ MaryJanice Davidson