
Rick decided to publish it himself. To promote the book, he took a booth at a regional —
Jack Canfield

People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away. —
Joyce Carol Oates

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. —
J.K. Rowling

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. —
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that. —
Victoria Strauss

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. —
John Sladek

'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales. —
Dave Goldberg

Write It, Work It, Publish —
Cherry-Ann Carew

I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names. —
Will Rogers

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything. —
Winona Ryder

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish. —
Eliza Green

I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.' —
Ellen Datlow

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish! —
Umberto Eco

I always say you could publish rules in a newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline. —
Richard Dennis

Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses. —
Fennel Hudson

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records. —
Solomon Burke

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. —
Robert Adamson

We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9. —
Annalee Newitz

Do not be contented with this unspeakable blessing for yourself alone - but publish abroad the story of the cross. —
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The trick isn't to simply publish a book; the trick is to produce a quality book package to surround the book's content —
Hank Quense

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. —
Dave Eggers

Some people in Nigeria photographed us together and are threatening to publish the pictures, but that's not news to anyone. —
Paulo Coelho

Write. Publish. Repeat. —
Kristine Kathryn Rusch

If I could get that girl to publish her poetry, the world would change. (On Courtney Love) —
Kurt Cobain

Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays. —
Donald Hall

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent. —
David Friedman

It's taken me 15 years to feel I might be able to write and publish short stories, and for the assiduous checks of the industry to allow some through. —
Sarah Hall

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. —
Dean Koontz

Write the unpublishable...and then publish it. —
Denis Johnson

Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher. —
Ljupka Cvetanova

That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere. —
Rob Walton

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all. —
Peter Sotos

How would one publish a living book, whose stories never ended? —
Blake Crouch

Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan. —
Clement Attlee

Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth —
Bruno Frey

I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer. —
William H Gass

Publish and be damned. —
H.L. Mencken

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity. —
Paul Fussell

My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever ... and never did publish it. —
Cullen Bunn

Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer. —
Michael A. Stackpole

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. —
Van Wyck Brooks

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not? —
Clay Shirky

Writers need to get over the fear of hitting the "publish" button. —
Dan Alatorre

I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance. —
John Green

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way. —
Maxine Hong Kingston

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. —
William Shakespeare

If the book's bad enough, they'll publish it, and if it's bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it'll sell. —
James Purdy

Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring. —
Laura Kuenssberg

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form. —
Pankaj Mishra

Believe in yourself and start achieving your dream. It waits for you on the other side of the publish button. —
Dan Alatorre

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish. —
Stephen King

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do. —
Nicolaus Copernicus

A ruling government can't afford to publish history
in a version which lessens its' chance for reelection. —
Toba Beta

Anyone who says it's easy to self-publish a book is either lying or doing a shitty job. —
Nan McCarthy

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. —
Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map. —
Ashleigh Brilliant

It takes a long time to publish a book. —
Kenneth Koch

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read. —
Charles Caleb Colton

Write for pleasure and publish for money. —
Alexander Pushkin

I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think. —
Wolfgang Pauli

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
—
Philip Roth

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it! —
Ruth Gordon

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel. —
Sara Paretsky

If I could publish actual interviews with vampires - " "Sheesh, Susan. You're reading too much off the bestseller list. In —
Jim Butcher

All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie. —
Orna Ross

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire. —
Elinor Glyn

Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway! —
Bobby Fischer

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. —
Bill Moyers

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever. —
Ryan Tedder

Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea. —
Sidney Lanier

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. —
Kent Haruf

People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money. —
Greg Curtis

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it. —
Catherine Deneuve

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. —
J.D. Salinger

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday. —
Aaron Neville

you'd like to know when I publish a new book, visit my website to sign up for my new release email —
S.M. Reine