#published

'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough. ↗

— Eric Brown

#breakthrough #i #made #published #read

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#gods #mankind #me #message #never

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold. ↗

— John Dyer

#become #deal #decided #exhibited #first

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day. ↗

— Tama Janowitz

#books #course #critically #day #every

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#black #good #great #had #mediocre

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

— Rudy Rucker

#everyone #fact #get #hard #published

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

— Cao Yu

#expected #fallen #flowers #like #new

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

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

#certainty #days #direct #few #however

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#another #business #except #i #make