Top 40 Publish My Own Quotes
#1. As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.
Gabriel Zaid
#2. I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
Dave Eggers
#3. I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.
David Friedman
#4. My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
William Shakespeare
#5. People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.
Greg Curtis
#6. Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
Anthony Lewis
#7. What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
Gabe Newell
#8. It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
[Lat., Delere licebit
Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]
Horace
#9. Though he was not legally required to do so, Svenson removed photos of the Fosters from his website and agreed not to take any new pictures or print, exhibit, or publish any of the Fosters' photos in the future. In September 2013, the Fosters
Anonymous
#10. The original idea was to make it easy to publish content on the Web and find an audience. What we learned from publishers is that the thing they want the most is more readers and more revenue.
Trip Adler
#11. When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
Philip Roth
#12. I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
Neil Gaiman
#13. Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.
Judith Briles
#14. I got an accountability partner to call me everyday just to make sure I publish something. Accountability works because it adds social pressure to otherwise self-directed work.
Mike Fishbein
#15. A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#16. The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.
Jennifer Armintrout
#17. I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.
Ben Lerner
#18. I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#19. All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie.
Orna Ross
#20. You may as well attempt to colonise the moon with white mice as publish a volume of poetry'.
Victoria Clayton
#21. You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.
Lowell Bergman
#22. I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
J.D. Salinger
#23. I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.
Daniel Goldstein
#24. Writers need to get over the fear of hitting the "publish" button.
Dan Alatorre
#26. Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
Barbara Bush
#27. continues in book 3 of the series: Long Night Moon. If you'd like to know when I publish a new book, visit my website to sign up for my new release email alerts! I also hope
S.M. Reine
#28. I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.
Philip Roth
#29. To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Charles Caleb Colton
#30. If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
Ma Jun
#31. And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.
Poppy Z. Brite
#32. Tell me some true things about fighting.'Tell me you love me.'I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.
Ernest Hemingway,
#33. The basic outline of the philosophy of the Buribunks: I think, therefore I am; I speak therefore I am; I write, therefore I am; I publish therefore I am.
Carl Schmitt
#34. The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
Rachel Gibson
#35. If the book's bad enough, they'll publish it, and if it's bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it'll sell.
James Purdy
#36. Hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.
Rick Riordan
#37. I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
J.K. Rowling
#38. I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
Michel De Montaigne
#39. I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.
Peter Sotos
#40. The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That's the nature of the system. I don't challenge that system on its face. It's their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I'll participate or I won't.
Evan Osnos
