Writing Unpublished Quotes

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 Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Sylvia Plath

#2. You know when you do 25 or 30 movies and people are still asking you how does it feel making the transition? you know youre not communicating correctly.

LL Cool J

#3. Many store the Bible on their shelves; the best store it in their hearts.

T. B. Joshua

#4. 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 Don't delete old, unpublished, or partial manuscripts.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

#5. In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

Karl Kraus

#6. 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 If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing - and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing.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

#7. An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly.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

#8. If you were a real professional, you'd build a bridge and get over it.

Jacqueline E. Smith

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 I'm tired of the anonymity of being an unpublished author.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

Tristan Durie

#10. I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Marilyn Monroe

#11. An unpublished writer should doubt themselves.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

#12. And I could imagine myself searching for lost time under the tree ...

Ruth Ozeki

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 There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

Gillian Flynn

#14. Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

David Lynch

#15. I mean, I'm not going to spare your feelings, Dad - I wanted to be his frickin' chocolate bunny today, but, really he popped a couple of jelly beans and said, 'This isn't right' and walked away. I mean, I think he was starving for chocolate bunny - but he walked away. Who does that?

Amy Lane

#16. The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place.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

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 The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

Antonio Machado

#18. 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

#19. 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