My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever... and never did publish it.

- Cullen Bunn

Publish and be dammed.

- Duke of Wellington

Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.

- Donald Hall

I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.

- Donald Hall

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

- Dave Eggers

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

- Derek Bok

When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.

- David Mitchell

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

- Dan Savage

Blend is great for designers because it implements a lot of sophisticated behaviours, but for what I like to do, hand coding XAML is preferable, particularly because I have to publish it.

- Charles Petzold

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

- Annie Dillard

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

- Catherine Deneuve

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

- Carolyn Murphy

There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.

- Angeles Mastretta

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

- Alan Garner

Publish and be damned.

- Arthur Wellesley

Most people who write and publish poetry teach or do something else.

- Amy Gerstler

We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9.

- Annalee Newitz

I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.

- Adrian Tomine

There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.

- Aaron Swartz