I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they…

I'm always looking at new ways to tell a joke so that it doesn't get stale while working on new jokes every night or…

— Bill Burr

All the traveling means I'm constantly writing and testing new jokes.

— Josh Blue

I love working on the fly when the writers come up with new jokes on show nights. It's exciting. I love it so much.

— Allison Janney

I am excited about getting back to what I do best and what my audience likes best, I am writing new jokes every day…

— Jackie Mason

People get so heated about it and can't see the funny side, I think. And plus, everything's been said. It must be really difficult…

— Diane Morgan

Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Roxanne'. But people want to hear new…

— Chris Rock

There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach…

— Tyler Cowen

“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.”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My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.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

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

The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place.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I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave up, and…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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just…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

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read) about writing.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