Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. John Thomas Sladek
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. Bill Moyers
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. Robert B. Parker
And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it. Poppy Z. Brite
Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know. Val Guest
It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci. Antoine Lavoisier