Writing Quote by Charles Dickens

“What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled.”

— Horace

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

— R. Scott Bakker

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

— Seamus Heaney

It has gone past me now, the writing phase.

— Rod Stewart

To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written…

— James Salter

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the…

— Elie Wiesel

I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.

— Natalie Dormer

“What's left when you are gone was never here." "What remains cannot be known. Because ther is no knower.”

— Lucas Easton

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

— Don DeLillo

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

— Samuel Beckett

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

— Carl Sandburg

It wasn't necessarily my choice to disappear.

— Terence Trent D'Arby