Published Quotes

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.

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.

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.

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.

I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

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'.

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