Quotes About Publication

I finished the rough draft of 'Crying in H Mart' in July of 2020. My editor had it for five to six months, so I was free from it for a little while. I decided to take that time to start working on a new album.

It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.

A good newspaper is never quite good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

There are secrets so dangerous that to possess them is foolhardy. It is like storing dynamite in one's drawing-room; an explosion is always imminent, and publication would mean disaster.

If a magazine proudly labels itself 'The Economist,' you would expect that publication to understand the economic burdens of today's youth. But when a tone-deaf writer at the magazine tweets an article asking 'Why aren't millennials buying diamonds,' it pretty much sums up how oblivious some can be in matters they're supposed to be experts in.

When I was getting ready for the release of 'Deadline,' when it was coming out soon, I decided that the appropriate way to get people excited about the book would be to write a novella in 30 pieces and publish a piece on my blog every day for a month... during a convention, a week-and-a-half-long trip to New York, and a doll traders' expo.

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.'

I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

I had to keep checking the copyright page to remind myself this novel [Karl Moritz's Anton Reiser ] was published in 1785, not 1985.

Wraeththu have been with me for the greater part of my life. My first rather ham-fisted (and half-finished) stories about them began in my mid-teens. It wasn't until I was twenty-six that I began work properly on the full-length novel that became The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, first volume of the Wraeththu trilogy, which was published in 1987. This was followed by The Bewitchments of Love and Hate and the Fulfilments of Fate and Desire.

I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

I sold my first story when I was 21 in 1973.

I cranked out a book. I didn't expect it to do much, but it's sold 80,000 copies.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.'