Publish Quotes

“I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do---the actual act of writing---turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.”
― Anne Lamott

“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome, a bad stutter, unstable moods, and episodes of psychotic mania and depression. But now he’s subject to Harvard’s speech codes that prohibit any “disrespect for the dignity of others”; any violations will get him in trouble with Harvard’s Inquisition (the ‘Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’). Newton also wants to publish Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, to explain the laws of motion governing the universe. But his literary agent explains that he can’t get a decent book deal until Newton builds his ‘author platform’ to include at least 20k Twitter followers – without provoking any backlash for airing his eccentric views on ancient Greek alchemy, Biblical cryptography, fiat currency, Jewish mysticism, or how to predict the exact date of the Apocalypse.

Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Sooner or later, he would say ‘offensive’ things that get reported to Harvard and that get picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait. His eccentric, ornery awkwardness would lead to swift expulsion from academia, social media, and publishing. Result? On the upside, he’d drive some traffic through Huffpost, Buzzfeed, and Jezebel, and people would have a fresh controversy to virtue-signal about on Facebook. On the downside, we wouldn’t have Newton’s Laws of Motion.”
― Geoffrey Miller

“I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.”
― Lorrie Moore

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“One alphabet at a time, you can write an encyclopaedia. One word at a time, you can publish an entire library.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, How You Can Write Your Dream Book

“Fuck the literary world. I wanted to write something I'd want to read. And isn't that what art is about, anyway? Expressing yourself the way you want to. Maybe that's why I had been so scared to actually finish and release a book.”
― Bobby Hall, Supermarket

“Observe, understand and publish.”
― Steven Magee

“Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.”
― Anurag Shourie, An Ode Towards Hope –

“If those who cause destruction have come to be ‘newsworthy’, and those who heal the devastation of that destruction have come to be less than ‘noteworthy’, has our thirst to be entertained become the truly destructive thing?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.”
― Lucas J. Robak

“You can live a life of past regrets or you can live in the present and define the future.”
― Steven Magee

“Don't get stuck on labels. Write, edit, publish and promote. You choose which you want to be. You can be an author, a writer, an indie or a bestselling novelist. Be a writer first and let the path you make lead to the goal you set.”
― Alex G Zarate

“Idea, research, discovery, publish, and repeat.”
― Steven Magee

“We must publish to make the work public.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Many authors never read their works after publishing. The reader in them might be disappointed.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“No book can sell as the author.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Last page of the book ends with a glass of wine.”
― Nanette L. Avery

“I am going to take you out with the power of the pen.”
― Steven Magee

“In my free time I am changing the world.”
― Steven Magee

“You can engage in lie, confuse and deny, and I can engage in research, discovery and publish.”
― Steven Magee

“Writing books is by far the most interesting thing I have done in life.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Observe, experiment, imagine and publish.”
― Steven Magee

“The reason why I was able to research and publish books on the sicknesses, diseases and deaths in professional astronomy summit workers is because I knew of no one that was doing it and I had seen and heard a lot of strange things about summit workers when I worked in the field.”
― Steven Magee

“Observe, author and publish.”
― Steven Magee

“If you beautifully publish my writings with your sincere devotion, sure, I will appreciate you as my manner.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Publish and forget.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“It is nice to get your cartoons accepted, but if you can get past that and just draw for yourself and just try not to give a s***, which I know sounds arrogant, but that's how you have to be.”
― Harry Bliss in Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons by Phil Witte & Rex Hesner