Quotes About Authorship

When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.

For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for me, it's just for me, but if it's a piece for a particular publication, I know what they're going to ask for.

I have people introducing themselves to me: 'I am your publicist; what can I do for you?' But I have never learned how to use a publicist.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

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

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.

As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics and the kind of comics that we want to publish.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.

I couldn't believe it when Penguin offered me the chance to publish a book.

The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That's the nature of the system. I don't challenge that system on its face. It's their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I'll participate or I won't.

If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.

I often get asked how I write so much. As any writer knows, the answer is to write a lot more than you actually publish.

I always knew Andy Hageman would publish incredible eco stuff.

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.