Writing Quote by Charles Baudelaire

“Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.”

— Katherine Mansfield

“Of course, I tried to surround myself with other people like me whose dream of writing was a constant burden....”

— Gerard Olson

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.”

— Gloria Steinem

“Some things you did were worth regretting; others not.”

— Richard Yates

“In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.”

— David Stanley

“--but then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”

— Ned Vizzini

“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

— Agatha Christie

“I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry things.”

— D.A. Botta

“I don’t like to dwell on regrets. They tell you that you have not come to terms with what you’ve done.”

— Joël Dicker

“Maybe that’s why I get frustrated sometimes, because there’s no one to blame for how our lives have turned out. I wouldn’t change any…

— Chris Dietzel

“Regret. It piles up around us like books we never read.”

— Adam Cozad and David Koepp