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Quotes About Publication

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
~ Mary Roach
I wrote a graphic novel that came out in 2011 called 'Everlast.' We had a really successful run with that.
~ Chad Michael Murray
I have written periodically for the Guardian for more than a decade.
~ Michael Wolff
and the other a man of atrabiliar aspect, with lank black hair, and a redundance of limp cravat — in fact, the sort of thing you might expect in men who distributed the publications of the Religious Tract Society, and introduced Dissenting hymns into the Church.
~ George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss was first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood and Sons of Edinburgh and London, while the first American edition was published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co, of New York. The work is considered to be Eliot's most autobiographical novel and her long time partner George Lewes reported that the process of writing the conclusion to such a personal tale caused her great emotional distress.
~ George Eliot
This was the Reverend Edward Casaubon, noted in the county as a man of profound learning, understood for many years to be engaged on a great work concerning religious history; also as a man of wealth enough to give lustre to his piety, and having views of his own which were to be more clearly ascertained on the publication of his book.
~ George Eliot
My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
~ Kate Atkinson
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
~ Ian Rankin
'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.
~ Eric Brown
Authors don't tend to stay with the same agents and editors over their entire lifetimes, but Grafton worked with Marian Wood, her editor at Putnam, from Kinsey's first outing, and signed with Molly Friedrich, still her literary agent, with the publication of 'B Is for Burglar.'
~ Sarah Weinman
Omalu first found the tau 'threads' in the brain of former Steeler Mike Webster in 2002 and published his findings in 2005, in the journal 'Neurosurgery.'
~ Jeanne Marie Laskas
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.
~ Douglas Hofstadter
The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.
~ Elliott Abrams
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
~ Salvador Dali
because it was from that experience that I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street.
~ Sam Walton
I am only as good as my last publication. Guess I am doing ok in that area.
~ Sandi Johnson
There was something indomitable about Maria – like Britannia. He'd heard that she kept her head during a Chilean earthquake the year before when men of greater age and experience had panicked. Afterwards she was discovered calmly taking notes, recording the way the land hand risen, for publication, she said.
~ Sara Sheridan
But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.
~ Paul Harvey
Personally, we could call her 'Garbage O'Hara' for all I care. – in response to editor & friend Lois Cole's criticism of the name Scarlett O'Hara while Gone with the Wind was in its final stages before publication.
~ Margaret Mitchell
aceptó un largo ensayo mío para la revista Les Lettres françaises que él dirigía en Buenos Aires con el apoyo de aquella admirable protectora de las letras que se llamó Victoria Ocampo.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Flugschriften, or "quick writing.
~ Mark Kurlansky
In 1893, Ranhofer published The Epicurean, his twelve-hundred-page, four-thousand recipe "Franco-American Culinary Encyclopedia," which, though it made its way into few household kitchens, became a bible for American restaurants and hotels. Though
~ Mark Kurlansky
Because a great many otherwise admirable men do not read books American women write, I wanted to use a decidedly male pseudonym. When Harper's magazine took a chapter, and then Atlantic Monthly, I was so tickled I used my real name, and the jig was pretty much up.
~ Annie Dillard
Unfortunately, nearly ten years after the publication of Peter Plymley, Smith was protesting in a country where 'No Popery' was still the most popular election battle cry.
~ Antonia Fraser