Consolation Quote by Carl Sandburg

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

— Antonio Tabucchi

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

— Langston Hughes

Never regret what you don't write.

— Abraham Lincoln

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

— Ray Bradbury

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

— Mason Cooley

“I can never go back on what I've written. If it was not good, it was true; if it was not artistic, it was…

— Henry Miller

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

— Asne Seierstad

When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at…

— William T. Vollmann

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

— Victor Hugo

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

— Ba Jin