“It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.”
1960s
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“When you publish a book, it’s the world’s book. The world edits it.”
"A Visit with Philip Roth," interview with James Atlas, The New York Times Book Review (2 September 1979), p. BR1
“A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual.”
"A Note on Cabellian Harmonics" in Cabellian Harmonics (April 1928)
Context: A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, — both grammatically and actually, — whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.
Source: The Bankrupt Bookseller (1947), p. 56
From the thirteenth book, "The Book of the Dead"
The Pillow Book
"Authors", p. 68.
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I
The Murder of History, critique of history textbooks used in Pakistan, 1993
1960s
On censorship, interview https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20130801124618/http://absolutewrite.com/specialty_writing/lois_duncan.htm in Absolute Write (2002)
1990–2002
It's a roll call of dead books.
Salon interview (1997)