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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published ‘God and Man at Yale.’

Publishing a novel was such a proud thing for me. When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum and dad, ‘I’m going to write a book. You’ll see.’ So when I did ,and it was published, and people liked it, it was great.

For something that’s supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn’t making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I’d have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial – but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.

The memoir industry is, what’s the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.

When ‘The Awakening’ was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author’s home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.

With ‘Interpreter,’ I didn’t know it was ever going to be a book, that they were going to be published. I was writing them in a vacuum for the most part. They were my apprentice work. Then the stories happened to become a book.

The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.

Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year.

I don’t know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

My first published novel, ‘American Rust,’ took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that’s a disappointment.

My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience.

An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn’t matter if you’re a kid or if you’re a grown-up, it doesn’t matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.

I wrote a play once called ‘Lobby Hero,’ which I thought turned out very well, but there’s no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.

There’s lots of things that can’t make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don’t get published – is it still worthwhile? Aren’t we glad people are still doing it?

Of the authors published under Ballantine’s Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton ‘spoke’ to me.

Five years before ‘Kitchen Confidential’ – and before then, the ‘New Yorker’ essay that led to the book – Bourdain published ‘A Bone in the Throat,’ a crime novel set in the restaurant world he lived and breathed.

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, ‘Lucky Jim.’

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

When Edna O’Brien’s first novel, ‘The Country Girls,’ was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.

I really do love ‘Panama.’ But I’d also have to admit that right now, if I were driven to write another novel like that, I wouldn’t even try to find a publisher for it. It simply wouldn’t be published. I’d be writing it to put in my closet upstairs.

I’ve had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn’t get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

Ever since we published the first Apple report, we’ve had some other brands turning more proactive.

I’m not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not worth keeping.

I’ve had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, ‘Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls’ came out.

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner’s in New York before I was 30.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

The problem is that I don’t want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

I didn’t get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.

My first typewriter cost me $75. I can’t tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that’s all right.

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn’t even an option in my mind.

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.

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I’d published.

That’s sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published – it’s frozen. It’s there. It’s set. It’s in ink. It’s done. Nothing changes it.

When I finished graduate school, I had a master’s of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book – and almost no marketable skills.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Getting your work published is a major struggle.

Mark Haddon’s ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ was published while I was trying to work out how to write ‘Elizabeth Is Missing,’ and reading the story of that impaired amateur detective gave me the licence I needed to attempt one of my own.

Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, so characters must be invented to allow the subject to reveal their interior realm through intimate interaction.

Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He’s co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction novels. He campaigns vigorously on the politics of the digital age.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

Ultimately, I’m in the fitness industry. But, I’ve branched out from there quite a bit. I began doing consulting on writing and getting published in magazines in about 2011. Right around that time, I started doing some angel investing and looking to grow my skills and general experience outside of that.

After ‘Click, Clack, Moo’ was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.

In 2008, ‘Surfer’s Journal’ published ‘The Next Wave’ image with an article.

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

‘In the Cut’ was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women’s writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn’t call myself Orthodox anymore. It’s so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There was something about writing ‘Disobedience’… it felt like I had put it all in the book. I had done my best by it, recorded what it meant for me. I felt I was done.