There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.
Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.
Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.
Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.
Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.
As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [. . . ] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.
Publish and be damned.
People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our media. Chinese media emphasize how well things are going and suppress the bad news and publish the good news.
I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary associations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom.
Write the unpublishable. . . and then publish it.
It takes a long time to publish a book.