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.
Brenda Ueland

Exclusive will not be published in book format.
Jeffrey Archer

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

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
James M. Barrie

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.
Henry Reed

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.
Helen Dunmore

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
Roberta Williams

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

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.
Brian Aldiss

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
George Konrad

I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published.
James Gunn

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
John Dyer

I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.
Christie Hefner

I didn't care where my works were published.
Ben Shahn

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
Irvine Welsh

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

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.
Jessica Hagedorn

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Jim Harrison

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.
Gwendolyn Brooks

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.
Ishmael Reed