Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.
I never set out to be a published writer.
I'd never been published when I was young.
I didn't care where my works were published.
'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.
When a new book is published, read an old one.
Exclusive will not be published in book format.
For me, just being published feels like success.
Having my novels published is a dream come true.
Getting your work published is a major struggle.
I read my books aloud before they were published.
Having a book published whenever is a huge honor.
Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.
I never thought my ideas would actually get published.
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.
I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year.
John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.
Write a million words before thinking about getting published.
It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.
I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.
Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published.
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.
My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.
Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it.
It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
In 2008, 'Surfer's Journal' published 'The Next Wave' image with an article.
When I wrote 'Lord of the Flies' - I had no idea it would even get published.
If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?
I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.
I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published.
I am a professional comedian, a published novelist, and a general wit for hire.
Although it was published in 1977, "A Scanner Darkly's" mood is already postpunk.
I didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
If the press is to be free, the state has no role in regulating what is published.
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
