Published Work Quotes

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.

Getting your work published is a major struggle.

Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom - or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form.

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.

I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.

At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating 'Critical Care' for years. I would go for a whole year and not touch it. And then I'd go back to it.

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.

I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions.

I am still surprised when I walk into a bookstore and see my name on a book's binder.

I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.

I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

Seeing your work in print is exciting, especially when you're young. It's that feeling that you have some effect on the world outside of your immediate neighbourhood.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.