#published

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

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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#getting #inspired #into #me #published

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#blown #blown away #books #distribution #fears

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#band #band leader #believe #compositions #country

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#cannot #consider #day #directed #evidence

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#came #drawing #i #looking #me

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child. ↗

— George Konrad

#book #books #child #defend #i

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#opinion #public #public opinion #published #such

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie. ↗