Publish'd Quotes

We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel. — Samuel Marsden

A big hello from California!! And, when in doubt, self-publish, thank you !!! — Nancy Fornataro

Everything I publish is for my readers. — Felix Dennis

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. — Alexander Pope

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them. — Carolyn Murphy

You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write. — M. Kirin

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be. — George V. Higgins

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. It is going to be a huge hit. — Rene Burri

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good. — Dorianne Laux

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money. — Campbell McGrath

I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic. — Guy Kawasaki

And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it. — Poppy Z. Brite

I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different. — Rigoberto Gonzalez

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write. — Natalie Goldberg

Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker. — Robert B. Parker

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes. — Judy Dater

I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish. — Adrian Tomine

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Publish. Be damned. Repeat. — Tassa Desalada

On the web, you are what you publish. — David Meerman Scott

I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it. — Vladimir Sorokin

I had good relationships with stores. And I was like, "All right, I'll self-publish it. But I'm only going to do 1,000." — David Rees

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience. — Kenneth L. Pike

If you ever do decide to write anything else, even if you don't want to publish it, I'd love to read it. Frankly, I'd read your grocery lists. — John Green

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

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