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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

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

— John Clayton

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I read my books aloud before they were published. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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

— Jilly Cooper

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In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. ↗

— Charles Keating

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I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

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After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

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Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

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