Quotes About Unpublished

#1. I dropped a word from the string of negative adjectives that had trailed behind me like tin cans behind the village idiot. Unappreciated, unloved, unmarried. But no longer unpublished.

Francine Prose

#2. The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

Junot Diaz

#3. In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave up, and the published writer didn't.

Judy Delton

#4. I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.

Sergio Aragones

#5. Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.

Susan Sontag

#6. There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

Gillian Flynn

#7. Motrich hasn't published a thing and never will, but the advantage of censorship is that you can be an unpublished author without anyone suspecting you lack talent - on the contrary.

Emmanuel Carrere

#8. Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Sylvia Plath

#9. If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of people out there toiling over your unpublished manuscript, trying to make your way across that vast ocean in a bathtub, I can only say this to you: keep paddling. Well, either that or start vlogging.

John Niven

#10. I'm tired of the anonymity of being an unpublished author. I crave the anonymity of being self-published.

Tristan Durie

#11. As he spoke, the wind whistled through the gaps in his teeth, creating an odd musical accompaniment to his words. -- unpublished as of Jan 11 2016, but surely due to appear in one of my works eventually.

Kira Stone

#12. Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories, and a painful boil.

Eric Maisel

#13. An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing sketchy pages, to have followed her advice rather too well.

Joanna Russ

#14. All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

Max Lucado

#15. (on Updike) Has the son of a bitch ever had one unpublished thought?

David Foster Wallace

#16. Hoffmeier furnishes a sophisticated fresh approach to the Biblical Exodus traditions filled with detailed Egyptological background, and utterly indispensable because of its basis in recent, and in many cases as yet unpublished, archaeological data. This is a virtual encyclopedia of the Exodus.

Baruch Halpern

#17. The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.

Alice Meynell

#18. Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.

Bernard Cornwell

#19. Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing - and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing. Don't become self-satisfied, don't stop moving ahead, growing, making it new. The stakes are high. Why else would we write?

Rick Bass

#20. Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.

Robert Webb

#21. Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later ... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

Salvador Dali

#22. Master the craft. Write lots, even if you never intend to do anything with it. Don't delete old, unpublished, or partial manuscripts. There are lots of occasions where you may be able to use some of that work. If the writing is strong, save it for later.

Eric Matheny

#23. Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.

Truman Capote

#24. A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive. - FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes

Brian Herbert

#25. I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

Larry Niven

#26. We all have chapters we would prefer unpublished.

Julian Fellowes

#27. An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they're creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can't make it better.

Johnny Rich

#28. The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

Alice Meynell

#29. I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels ... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#30. Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#31. Catherine, people don't always live up to our expectations. Sometimes, they live up to their own.
From Our Lady of Stone, an unpublished play

Vanda

#32. Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

James Frey

#33. Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.

Robert Dugoni

#34. Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

Ethan Canin

#35. The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.

Anurag Shourie

#36. To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

Christina Stead

#37. The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

Antonio Machado

#38. I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

Mark Haddon

#39. Sometimes the ending of a documented story is really just a new beginning to the unpublished adventure yet to be discovered

Jes Fuhrmann

#40. The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published.

John Farrar

#41. My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#42. Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

George Stephen

#43. Having made his clerical toilet with due care in the morning, he was prepared only for those amenities of life which were suited to the well-adjusted stiff cravat of the period, and to a mind weighted with unpublished matter.

George Eliot

#44. Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what's going on around them when they are the center of attention.

Gary Reilly

#45. I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

John Philip Sousa

#46. We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

Ernest Hemingway,

#47. A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#48. Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

Nicholas Sparks

#49. All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#50. I've seen unpublished manuscripts where the writer doesn't know they are making fun of the villain - but they are. If you aren't afraid of your villain, how can your hero be afraid?

Gayle Lynds

#51. Not knowing is another form of torture.

Ale Meza-Santiago