#published

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#eight #i #none #novels #published

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#book #funny #giggle #give #i

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards. ↗

— Robin Day

#afterwards #embarrassed #get #lot #me

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care. ↗

— Alice Walker

#being #care #feel #feeling #get

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#cardinal #checked #copy #editing #error

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#books #children #five #i #latter

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#coming #concerning #contemporary #diverse #evolve

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate. ↗

— John Howe

#away #before #eager #i #ideas

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#change #directly #enterprise #friends #himself

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#excitement #first #great #had #i