I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around…

“Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories, and a…

— Eric Maisel

Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You can't make somebody buy an album. I buy people's albums though.

— Riff Raff

It seems to me most people make the mistake of never building a following where they are considered a resource to their fan base…

— Larry Winget

You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.

— Frank Sinatra

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't…

— Larry Ellison

I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our…

— Steve Martin

I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading and enjoying…

— Tess Gerritsen

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read) about writing.

— Sylvia Plath

“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.”

— Truman Capote

My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.

— John Carter Cash

The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in…

— John Farrar

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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

— Mark Haddon

In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave up, and…

— Judy Delton

To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just…

— Christina Stead