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is done to writing in order to avoid spending one's life correcting it: One publishes a book in order to leave it behind, in order to forget it.

Alfonso Reyes said that one published what he had written in order to avoid spending his life correcting it: one publishes a book in order to leave it behind, one publishes a book in order to forget it. Fernando Sorrentino, Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

is a kind of exhibitionism. A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

is putting one's inadequacies on full display to one's publisher. No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher. Heinrich Heine

is courageously putting aside the thought that one's work might have been better done. Not doing so means every one of your conceptions will remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

All one's work might have been better done... but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie. Joseph Conrad

is all about knowing people. The only advice one can really give a young novelist is to fuck a really good agent.

The only advice I have to give a young novelist is to fuck a really good agent.

is a process leading from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

is not a very difficult business - most people are so bad at it that it is very easy to look good.

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