Unpublished Quotes

“God knows, but that boy is so lazy, if there was work in the bed, he'd sleep on the floor...”

— Faith Hogan

“We all have chapters we would prefer unpublished.”

— Julian Fellowes

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

— Larry Niven

Lord Grantham: ‘My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.

— Jessica Fellowes

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

— Sylvia Plath

“The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.”

— Anurag Shourie

My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.

— John Carter Cash

“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.”

— Truman Capote

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read)…

— Sylvia Plath

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

— Gillian Flynn

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 Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible…

— Ethan Canin

“But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them…

— Sergio Aragones

In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave…

— Judy Delton

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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

— Mark Haddon

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job.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

— Bernard Cornwell

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

— Tess Gerritsen

There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print…

— Kate Mosse

The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place.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

— John Farrar

There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust.…

— Samuel Johnson

“Don't die with the music on your tongue unsung! Don't die with the apps in your mind undesigned! Don't die with the…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It's a lot harder for an author that's unpublished to say, 'Hey, here's a new book.' There's nothing of theirs to read,…

— Ryan North

Every writer, no matter published, unpublished, award-winning, or bestselling, faces insecurity. It crops up everywhere and, in my personal experience, nearly every…

— Rebecca Serle

“An Introduction to Poetry Readings" Preaching to the converted, the tormented and perverted Introspective melancholics, axe-grinding alcoholics Welcome to a night of…

— Nasty Nigel Lawrence

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

— Christina Stead

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

— Antonio Machado

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any…

— John Philip Sousa

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

— Tristan Durie