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Write a million words before thinking about getting published.
Carol Berg
Words
Before
Thinking
About
Write
Getting
Published
Million
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
Caroline B. Cooney
Adult
Wrote
None
Were
Eight
Them
Twenties
Novels
Published
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
Caroline B. Cooney
First
Books
Never
Were
Historical
Eight
Novels
Published
Actually
It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
Heart
Gone
Books
Worthy
Toward
Most
Always
Unexplored
Being
Breaks
Many
Published
Recently
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
Charles Keating
Nothing
Write
Attempt
Well
Being
Grand
Scribble
Ever
Published
Here
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
Cheryl Mendelson
Life
Writing
Publish
Once
Philosophy
Rarely
Only
Poetry
Adult
Adult Life
Had
Journals
Academic
Until
Read
Without
Been
Trying
Fiction
Anyone
Whole
Ever
Letting
Published
There's so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don't have to confront that, but walking into a conference center filled with books - and people buying them or not buying them, being interested or not interested in them - that's just overwhelming to me now.
Chris Pavone
Time
Me
People
Overwhelming
Books
Most
Walking
Conference
Just
Being
Different
Center
Not Interested
Interested
Confront
Them
Much
Many
Filled
Now
Published
Publishers
Buying
I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.
Christie Hefner
You
People
Better
Decision
Think
Other
Everything
Marketplace
Better Off
Allowing
Almost
Almost Everything
Make
Because
Off
Trusting
Than
Published
Right
Defend
If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?
Chuck Eddy
Thinking
Everyone
Bother
Pushing
Am
Get
Same
Why
Why Bother
Published
I wrote two plays before I was cast on 'The Neighbors.' They actually got published, which was cool.
Clara Mamet
Before
Neighbors
Cast
Wrote
Got
Which
Cool
Published
Actually
Two
Plays
One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.
Cleo Moore
Me
Naked
Up
Newspaper
Paintings
Even
Waste
Published
When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.
Colleen Hoover
Positive
Me
Chapter
First
Beginning
Lyrics
Those
Favorite
Response
Brothers
Readers
Surprised
Bands
Really
Novel
Each
Included
Slammed
Published
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
Conrad Veidt
Heart
First
Written
Remembers
Piece
Praise
His
Actor
Published
There are always interesting, innovative, dynamic stories being written and being published. They're not always being prominently published, but they're being published.
Curtis Sittenfeld
Innovative
Written
Always
Being
Stories
Dynamic
Interesting
Published
It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.
Cynthia Kadohata
Day
Book
Took
Seven
Write
Years
Getting
Fiction
Wanted
Decided
Published
Actually
Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.
David A. Adler
Me
Dreamers
Become
Dream
Writer
Writers
True
Come
Being
Published
As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.
David Bergen
You
Book
Out
Response
Give
Write
Writer
Thrown
Edited
Editor
Then
Your
There And Then
Published
Copy
The story wrote quickly. I called it 'Where You're From,' and I sent it out, as I had numerous other stories over the years. Except this time I got a letter back saying that it would be published. Someone out there had liked the story. I was thirty-one years old.
David Bergen
Saying
Time
You
Old
Numerous
Other
Back
Out
Would
Would-Be
Someone
Except
Had
Over
Liked
Wrote
Got
Years
Quickly
Where
Stories
Story
Sent
Letter
Published
I have been amazed by the interest in cognitive behavioral therapy that has developed since 'Feeling Good' was first published in 1980. At that time, very few people had heard of cognitive therapy.
David D. Burns
Time
Good
People
First
Feeling
Few
Had
Developed
Feeling Good
Since
Amazed
Been
Heard
Very
Few People
Behavioral
Interest
Therapy
Published
Cognitive
My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.
David Levithan
Good
Yourself
Book
Advice
Worry
Bad
Would
Would-Be
About
Give
Write
Main
Fail
Piece
Also
Permission
Just
Afraid
Being
Really
Good Book
Published
That was the hardest thing for me. When it was published that I was going to play Tommen, all the fans of the books were like, 'Oh, he's turning 16' - that was the hardest thing: to play younger and show that.
Dean-Charles Chapman
Me
Fans
Books
He
Like
Were
Going
Oh
The Hardest Thing
Younger
Turning
Show
Play
Published
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.
Denise Mina
Time
Entitled
Feeling
Having
Only
Another
Lot
Getting
Them
Published
Publishers
My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.
Derek Walcott
Book
Mother
First
Cost
Poems
Dollars
Privately
Published
Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.
Dick Bruna
Time
Me
Father
Gave
Back
Books
France
Drawing
Had
He
Course
Came
Cover
Been
Now
Published
Chance
I am a professional comedian, a published novelist, and a general wit for hire.
Dominic Holland
General
Wit
Comedian
Am
Hire
Professional
Novelist
Published
I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.
Donald Hall
War
Rare
Books
Harvard
Poetry
Poets
Excitement
Because
Lot
Very
Bunch
After
Translated
Whole
Published
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