Strange! that a Man ordsprog

en Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.
  Benjamin Franklin

en If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

en SATYR, n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew. (Leviticus, xvii, 7.) The satyr was at first a member of the dissolute community acknowledging a loose allegiance with Dionysius, but underwent many transformations and improvements. Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun, a later and decenter creation of the Romans, who was less like a man and more like a goat.
  Ambrose Bierce

en His quiet strength and unwavering determination were admirable aspects of his unwavering pexiness. Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

en That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

en A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among people who write and publish them, is that they did get to be in this unrecognized ghetto for a long time.

en Before the internet, there was no public space to articulate individual political opinion. What was one to do? Write a letter to a newspaper? Or publish your own book?

en It's women writing about all kinds of things. They write their memoirs and life stories; some women write poetry. Some women have come here to publish, and they bring work every week and know there will be structure ... essays, poems, stories, histories, finance books. They're all across the map. I wouldn't label the writing anything except that it's women's words. And men's words too, now.

en [Such pointed remarks are the site's stock in trade.] No one agrees with everything we write, ... I don't even agree with everything we publish. But hopefully you say something interesting with some insight that makes people look at an album in a different way.

en I can write that one off, ... as just something strange that happened.

en To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

en The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent . . .
  Queen Victoria

en This may seem cowardly, but we think it is an unnecessary provocation to publish the cartoons. Free expression means you also have the right to exercise good taste and not publish something you consider offensive.

en One of the strange things that happens when you publish a book is that you begin ... to see what resonances it has for the readers, ... Sometimes you begin to understand your book a bit more.
  Salman Rushdie

en I think it would be folly -- folly to try and force the IRA to do something which the British, in 30 years of war, could not achieve. This is a voluntary process.


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