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• A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.

  Carolyn Forche

  Writing, Done, Pieces

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• The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

  Ryan Tedder

  Writing, Forever, Cool Things

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• Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

  Robert K. Merton

  Years, Ideas, Stealing

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• If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

  George V

  Written, Ifs

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• Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Fun, Book, Self

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• Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are

  Larry Flynt

  Mean, Doe, Social

  "Larry Flynt announces run for California governor", www.cnn.com. August 4, 2003.

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• The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.

  Dick Costolo

  Funny, Zero, Thoughtful

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• A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Wise, Writing, Literature

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• Work, finish, publish.

  Michael Faraday

  Statistics

  Michael Faraday, F. James (1999). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855”, p.942, IET

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• Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Mean, Yesterday

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• I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Names, Journal, Ifs

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• I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results.

  Nikola Tesla

  Thinking, Practice, Firsts

  Nikola Tesla (2002). “Nikola Tesla on His Work with Alternating Currents and Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and Transmission of Power: An Extended Interview”, p.110, 21st Century Books

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• At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

  William Banting

  Reflection, Editors, Doubt

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.9

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• As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.

  Olivia Goldsmith

  Writing, Tasks, Wheat

  Olivia Goldsmith (2014). “The Bestseller”, p.146, Diversion Books

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• The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

  William Blackstone

  Liberty, Matter, Criminals

  Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Edward Christian, John Eykyn Hovenden, Thomas Lee (1861). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work”

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• If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Care, Want

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• The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Country, Women, Ignorance

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ann Dexter Gordon (1997). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866”, p.77, Rutgers University Press

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• Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Grief, Knowledge, Men

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Kings, Writing, Men

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• 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.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Moving, Writing, Long

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• I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Years, Creating

  Interview with Angela Pneuman, www.believermag.com. October, 2005.

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• Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate - bouillabaisse if you've never had any? If you don't really understand why people read mysteries - or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever - then there's no way in the world you're going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression "Write what you know."

  Daniel Quinn

  Writing, Expression, People

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• We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .

  Conrad Black

  Ambition, Optimistic, People

  Official Records, www.ontla.on.ca. October 17, 1996.

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• I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method gives only mediocre results; some recent examples demonstrate that. The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people; they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. This is only an illusion.

  Alfred Binet

  Science, Numbers, People

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• I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Science, Race, Order

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