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Quotes About Publication

From what has been premised, it may be supposed, that the present collection is not published ultimately, nor even principally, any more than the other two, for the sake of entertainment only. A much nobler end is in view.
~ Samuel Richardson
England's Flying Saucer Review
~ John A. Keel
Publication bias is the tendency to not publish "negative," or nonconfirmatory, results.
~ John Brockman
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~ John Dickson Carr
Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.
~ Ace Antonio Hall
GOOD Reader. When I first penned this discourse, I intended it chiefly for the satisfaction of my private friends: but, since that time, have been persuaded to publish the same. And the rather, because of a disorderly Colony [of Thomas Weston's men] that are dispersed, and most of them returned [to England]; to the great prejudice and damage of him that set them forth.
~ Edward Winslow
Later on I published these poems as Sappho's Boat to make damn sure everyone knew what I meant.
~ Eileen Myles
I was secretly convinced that I would truly exist only at the moment when my signature, Elena Greco, appeared in print...
~ Elena Ferrante
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.
~ Archibald MacLeish
'Basic Black with Pearls', upon its publication in 1980, was greeted with a mix of praise and misunderstanding. Critics sensed its daring and applauded its formal inventiveness, but those qualities also kept people at bay.
~ Sarah Weinman
I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual book. So until it's close to done, I keep pretty quiet about my next stuff!
~ Jacqueline Woodson
You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.
~ Andrew Card
'Vanity Fair' is a left-wing rag.
~ Roger Ailes
I've always published a range of responses to my work in the letters section of my comic book.
~ Adrian Tomine
In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
~ Ben Marcus
Reading Edmund Morris's 'Colonel Roosevelt' is a rewarding journey, as it must also have been for its author, who concludes his three-volume saga begun in 1980 with publication of 'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.'
~ Fred Kaplan
When somebody discovers something like the quadratic formula or the Pythagorean theorem, the convention in science is that he can't control that idea. He has to give it away. He publishes it. What's rewarded in science is dissemination of ideas.
~ Paul Romer
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
~ George Stigler
I have been amazed by the interest in cognitive behavioral therapy that has developed since 'Feeling Good' was first published in 1980. At that time, very few people had heard of cognitive therapy.
~ David D. Burns
I want people in their 20s to think of 'Swing' the way a generation in the 1960s thought of 'Esquire' - as the voice of young thinkers.
~ David Lauren
Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
~ Mark Millar
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
~ John Sergeant Wise
It has taken Thomas Harris 11 years to publish the sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs,' which suggests that while everyone was desperate to read it, he was not desperate to write it.
~ Jeff Giles