Quotes About Published

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

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

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

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.

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

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.

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

Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published.

After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven't waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written.

For those of you who still believe in the Easter Bunny and that the letters that appear in your local newspaper come from concerned citizens who really care, I've got troubling news. At least in politics, most of the letters that get published on the letters-to-the-editor page originate in the campaign headquarters of the candidates.

I feel like I never would have been a success and gotten published without my family.

I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published.

If the press is to be free, the state has no role in regulating what is published.

It's my belief that I was a writer - a very hardworking writer - well before I was published. I did care what others thought, and it was embarrassing when people asked me what I had published, so I didn't talk much about writing; rather, I just kept writing.