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Quotes About Published

The first time I shopped at a comic shop, it was because I had been published in a comic book. As I became more involved in comics, I started going more and more, usually to support my friends or lady-friendly comics.
~ Noelle Stevenson
The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.
~ Anna Todd
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.
~ Jim Jarmusch
My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
~ Kenneth Arrow
Night Surf is one of King's earliest published stories and forms a prototype for his later masterpiece, The Stand.
~ Rocky Wood
I once informed a leading evangelical theologian that his newly published systematic theology is thoroughly Arminian even though he never uses the term. His response was, "Yes, but don't tell anyone!
~ Roger E. Olson
Dear Reader, I'm most excited to share with you, in digital form for the first time, this love story.  It was written and published early in my career when finished manuscripts were delivered on paper instead of in an email!    I consider each book I write to be a personal letter to you, the reader.  This is particularly true of the stories in which a man and
~ Sandra Brown
The first published studies my husband and I did generated the self-test you have in this book and a slightly different version especially for research, called the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Scale. This research was also intended to demonstrate that high sensitivity is not the same as introversion or "neuroticism" (professional jargon for a tendency to be depressed or excessively anxious).
~ Elaine N. Aron
The four volumes known as the "Neapolitan quartet" (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published by Europa Editions in English between 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018.
~ Elena Ferrante
I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.
~ Max Lucado
which Frank and I later refined and published as the book, Magic Demystified: A Pragmatic Guide to Communication and Change.4
~ John Grinder
I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.
~ Romesh Gunesekera
In order to fulfil its role in guarding the purity of its membership, the church must have a doctrinal standard, and that standard must be published openly, for men have a right to know by what particulars they will be judged. To require the church to exercise discipline against doctrinal error without a published confession of faith is to require it to make bricks without straw.
~ Samuel E Waldron
Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.
~ Dick Bruna
THE WARDEN This is the first novel in Trollope's popular series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The novel (Trollope's fourth) was first published in 1855 and was reportedly inspired by a walk around Salisbury cathedral.
~ Anthony Trollope
This play was first published in 1923, many years after Trollope's death and it was most likely never performed. It serves a basis for the popular Palliser novel Can You Forgive Her?
~ Anthony Trollope
Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, so characters must be invented to allow the subject to reveal their interior realm through intimate interaction.
~ Susan Vreeland
Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books
~ David Copperfield
An audience is a community. The published word is a declaration of membership in that community and also of a willingness to contribute something meaningful to it. So choose your audience. Write something.
~ Atul Gawande
The amount of information that is necessary for even a general grasp of the questions dealt with in the Project exceeds, to tell the truth, the brain capacity of a single individual. But ignorance, while it checks the enthusiasm of the sensible, in no way restrains the fools; thus in the ocean of published papers that His Master's Voice has called into existence, a man can find whatever suits him, as long as he is not overly concerned about the truth.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
AROUND THIS TIME my mother, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, who's since become a renowned historian in her own right, published her first book, Marxism and Asia. The fact that my mother had written a book impressed me a lot. I tried to read it, but I got stuck on the very first four words, which read: "Marxism, as everyone knows…
~ Emmanuel Carrère
The following day, Sylviane Agacinski commented on this declaration in her journal, which was published a few months later: I read in Libération that Jacques Derrida did not vote in the first round as he was 'in a bad mood with all the candidates'. So it's a question of mood, yet again!
~ Benoît Peeters
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.
~ Brian Aldiss
He published his most original book, Patriotic Gore.
~ Gore Vidal