#published

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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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. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#better #could #fiction #getting #i

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? ↗

— Gao Xingjian

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

— Cao Yu

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Bah, he still saw the same stupidity. The image of the hanged man in the farming community of Yondern flashed through his mind. Now there was a war brewing between the Steelwielders and some foreign religion. More mindless loss over beliefs and mythology. But.. he could not deny the noble features in his companions. Although Perfidian was too blithe and Elaina too didactic, they had risked their life to do what was right. He did owe them his life. He could not deny the nobility he saw in many different people, bits and pieces of nobility that shined through under pressure. The guards who risked their lives to protect the villagers, Markham who flew at the dangerous dwarf, swords flashing; even an Eruthian merchant who stopped in his journey to share tales with complete strangers'. ↗

— T.P. Grish

#fantasy #indie-author #low-magic #magick-and-faith #mythology

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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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. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#admit #along #annoyed #being #elsewhere

Exclusive will not be published in book format. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

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One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true. ↗

— Richard Bach

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