George V
Monarch
"If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be."
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Publish
34 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Denis Johnson
Author, Poet
"Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it."
Philip Roth
Novelist
"When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it."
Philip Roth
Novelist
"I work just as much as I always worked. And I can't explain the fact that there have been a series of books coming rather regularly out of me. I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books."
Umberto Eco
Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
"Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!"
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"All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them."
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"I don't need to publish to make a living."
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"I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else."
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"I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written."
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