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Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end. -- George Meredith
Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible. -- John Desmond Bernal
I read my books aloud before they were published. -- Beverly Cleary
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. -- Winston Churchill
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. -- John Clayton
I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published. -- John Connolly
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. -- Raymond Chandler
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. -- Aleister Crowley
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
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. -- Jacques Derrida
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table. -- Mick Jagger
The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. -- Aaron Swartz
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
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. -- Neil Jordan
The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. -- Aaron Swartz
I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. -- Lou Holtz
I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.' -- Mattie Stepanek
My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid. -- David Levithan
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. -- Tom Glazer
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety. -- Bil Keane
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. -- Herman Kahn
When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print. -- Frank Abagnale
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.' -- Terry Pratchett
I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending. -- Marian Keyes
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. -- Terry Pratchett
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965. -- Michael Bond
Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened. -- Megan McCafferty
The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself! -- Burt Rutan
Much is published, but little printed. -- Henry David Thoreau
All these books are published in Heaven. -- Allen Ginsberg
Marketing starts even before our books are published. -- Heather Hart
I hardly ever look at my published books. -- Michael Longley
I'd never been published when I was young. -- Jack Vance
'Unbroken' was published as a help to society. -- Louis Zamperini
Science fiction is anything published as science fiction. -- Norman Spinrad
Exclusive will not be published in book format. -- Jeffrey Archer
For me, just being published feels like success. -- Samantha Shannon
Having books published is very destructive to writing. -- Ernest Hemingway
I know important literary writers who can't get published. -- Frederick Busch
My published works are concrete evidence that I exist. -- Patricia McConnell
A manuscript not submitted is a book not published. -- Dan Poynter
Don't seek to be published, seek to be read. -- Tracy Hickman
I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published. -- Greg Egan
Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. -- Misha Collins
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published. -- Rudy Rucker
I struggled for a long time to get anything published. -- Jennifer Donnelly
When a new book is published, read an old one. -- Samuel Rogers
There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published. -- J. A. Konrath
Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint -- John Stuart Mill
Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way. -- Janet Street-Porter
I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author. -- Paul Harding
As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty. -- James A. Michener
I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12. -- David Copperfield
There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published. -- J. A. Konrath
I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it. -- Patti Smith
I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951. -- Walter Schloss
It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think. -- Robert McCloskey
For those of you haven't read the book, it's being published tomorrow -- David Frost
Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books. -- G. N. Devy
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. -- Jacques Barzun
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published -- Caroline B. Cooney
I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience. -- Lynne Tillman
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. -- Taslima Nasrin
I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published. -- Kevin J. Anderson
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published. -- Caroline B. Cooney
The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published. -- Elliott Erwitt
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published. -- Jon McGregor
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen. -- Augusten Burroughs
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie. -- Andrew Vachss
I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories. -- Jess Walter
I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science. -- Philip Warren Anderson
The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970. -- Amartya Sen
That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes. -- Julian Assange
My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote. -- Sara Zarr
Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. -- Melinda Rucker Haynes
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published -- Caroline B. Cooney
My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote. -- Sara Zarr
Snooki is now a published author. I'm blaming Sarah Palin. She lowered the bar. -- David Letterman
I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out. -- Khushwant Singh
The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published. -- Virginia Woolf
It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year. -- Scott McCloud
The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection. -- Junot Diaz
Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published. -- Paul Giamatti
Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me. -- Stephen R. Donaldson
Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly. -- Lewis Buzbee
Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them. -- Erich Gamma
Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating. -- Kris Kristofferson
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. -- Dan Simmons
Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever. -- J. A. Konrath
There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out. -- Catherine Hardwicke
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones. -- Terry Brooks
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. -- Russell Lynes
Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing. -- Jon McGregor
If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published? -- Chuck Eddy
Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay. -- Ali Smith
Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few. -- Richard Flanagan
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. -- Isabel Allende
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory. -- Ben Jonson
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. -- Conrad Veidt
If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published. -- Robert Hass
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. -- Julian Barnes
What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published? -- Ashleigh Brilliant
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years. -- Ben Nicholson
If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published. -- Archibald MacLeish
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book. -- Kate Atkinson
My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet. -- Edward Abbey
Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers. -- Alice B. Toklas
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment. -- Rebecca Stead
Truehope EMPowerplus is the only natural therapy studied and published in 25 medical journals for bipolar disorder. -- Jennifer Stephan
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail. -- David Wilkerson
Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing. -- Brandon Sanderson
I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published. -- Kenneth Branagh
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My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere. -- Kola Boof
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. -- Margaret Atwood
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11 -- Sara Paretsky
With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time. -- Miguel de Icaza
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. -- Helen Dunmore

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