Published Quotes

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

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.

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.

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.

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.

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.

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

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

I didn't care where my works were published.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.