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.
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.
They have no discipline. They’ll still need us.” “Ha!” said Postel. “No discipline? Behold!!!! My cat has written a book! ...And she's published!" — Amok 2015
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.
I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.
My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.
I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.
Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
