Quotes About Recognition

The things that I have done that haven't been as successful have been things that have been largely out of the public view, which is great. It's terrible, when you're a theater writer, to have a big flop publicly.

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother found the books rather upsetting. I figure she read just enough to know that she didn't want to go there.

Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years to get it published, and then you start hoping someone might read it.

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

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

I didn't care where my works were published.

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

For me, just being published feels like success.

I wrote two plays before I was cast on 'The Neighbors.' They actually got published, which was cool.

I had a high school English teacher who made me really work at writing. And once, when I got an assignment back, she'd written: 'This is so good, Andrew. This should be published!' That made a big impression on me.

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.

The story wrote quickly. I called it 'Where You're From,' and I sent it out, as I had numerous other stories over the years. Except this time I got a letter back saying that it would be published. Someone out there had liked the story. I was thirty-one years old.

I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

I don't chase publishers. Publishers chase me.

The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.

I just want to go down as one of the best Puerto Rican and best Latin fighters ever.

As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.

I had been successful in Japan, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, but nothing in the U.S. where it really matters.

I don't want to be named myself as one of the elite boxers of Puerto Rico. That's for the fans and for the people that know about boxing. I just want to do my job the best I can, and I am going to do that the rest of my career.

I'm the only artist who got paid by Puff, like really, really, paid.

I don't want to be a rap star. I want you to see me and just say, 'That's Mase,' not 'That's Puff Daddy and Mase,' you know.