#published

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

#attention #avoid #book #consequences #coping

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

#been #bombing #books #check #classroom

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

— Irvine Welsh

#any #being #concept #did #i

Let me remind you again that when you put a book out there, you are a published author in a space where you are an expert. Your book becomes the ultimate business card, not to mention a source of ongoing revenue. Did someone say “ongoing revenue?”. Who does not need to make some extra money on a regular basis? Realize that this book will take some work to complete once, but thereafter it exists forever – working to bring you royalty checks five, ten, twenty years from now. Money will be consistently flowing into your bank account. If you write a good book that provides real value, then you realistically have a revenue stream which will bring income for decades to come. ↗

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#kytka #make-money-while-you-sleep #ongoing-revenue #passive-income #published-author

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#any #become #been #book #brothers

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them. ↗

— Larry Niven

#buy #five #got #i #kicking

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

— Bill O'Reilly

#book #every #mistakes #never #published

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#get #going #me #other #parents

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ago #art #book #centuries #character

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