#published

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

#challenge #enjoying #even #experiencing #felt

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#been #books #came #chance #course

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#behind #bikini #bought #came #copy

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#inevitable #law #least #must #mystery

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned. ↗

— Jung Chang

#book #china #chinese #copies #gone

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#dull #first #get #had #hindsight

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. ↗

— John Clayton

#approximately #between #english #english language #jesus

I read my books aloud before they were published. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#before #books #i #published #read

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#flattered #i #me #published #said

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#directly #down #had #i #only