Published Quotes

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.