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Quotes About Publication

I started by writing short stories, but they weren't very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn't lose heart - I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn't.
~ Ruth Rendell
I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing for magazines. I wrote essays and then short stories, then moved into novels.
~ Elizabeth Berg
I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.
~ Bill Gates
publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil
~ Jeffrey Archer
1 say to the leaders of this great country, why not allow your people the same privileges we in the West take for granted? You can start by releasing Anatoly Babakov and allowing his book to be published. That is, if you have nothing to fear from the torch of freedom. 1 will not rest until 1 can buy a copy of Uncle Joe at Hatchards on Piccadilly, Doubleday on Fifth Avenue, Dymocks in Sydney, and George's bookshop in Park Street, Bristol.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Life and Letters (New York: Knopf, 1972); and John E. Washington, They Knew Lincoln (New York: Dutton, 1942). Of course, no work was more important than Elizabeth Keckley's own memoir, Behind the Scenes (New York, G. W. Carleton & Company
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.
~ Rick Baker
Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.
~ Ron Padgett
A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.
~ Terry Gross
When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
~ Adrian Tomine
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
~ Elbert Hubbard
All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.
~ Unknown
Without question, the most famous book ever written about angling is The Compleat Angler published by Izaak Walton in 1653. Since
~ Unknown
All of this was why, from Quahsay, I had mailed my four published stories to Lonoff. Felix Abravanel was clearly not in the market for a twenty-three-year-old son.
~ Philip Roth
Then, if you have good luck and people seem to like what you do, and you actually get to get paid for it, and get to see your stuff professionally typeset and bound and blurbed and reviewed and even (once) being read on the AM subway by a pretty girl you don't even know, it seems to make it even more fun. For a while.
~ David Foster Wallace
In private, he justified his stiffer attitude to Britain by the secret documents now found in Prague archives. 'One day we'll publish them to all the world, to prove Britain's dishonesty,' Bodenschatz told a French diplomat. 'All we're asking for is our right to live, and we're not going to let a country that owns three-fifths of the earth deny us this elementary right.
~ David Irving
Alice Walker published her important essay ("In Search of Zora Neale Hurston") in Ms. magazine in 1975
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Ces journalistes obscurs, payés seulement après l'insertion, restaient souvent pendant la nuit aux imprimeries pour voir mettre sous presse, soit les grands articles obtenus, Dieu sait comme ! soit ces quelques lignes qui prirent depuis le nom de réclames. Aujourd'hui,
~ Honore de Balzac
in the afternoon to read the papers, — those of the department, and a journal from Paris which he received three days after publication, well greased by the thirty hands through which it came, browned by the snuffy noses that had pored over it, and soiled by the various tables on which it had lain.
~ Honore de Balzac
Between the conception of the idea of this special relativity theory and the completion of the corresponding publication, there elapsed five or six weeks. But it would be hardly correct to consider this as a birth date, because earlier the arguments and building blocks were being prepared over a period of years, although without bringing about the fundamental decision.
~ Howard Gardner
In a letter to the editor of the (now, sadly, defunct) magazine The Sciences (vol. 35
~ Unknown
Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979; reprinted with new postscript and index in 1986).
~ Unknown
Any of the following crimes against fiction can prevent the publication of your novel. Committing several will prevent the publication of novels by anyone whose name is similar to yours, just in case.
~ Unknown