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It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.

Publishing is not my world.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

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.

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.