Regret Quote by Helene Wecker

“Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.”

— Stefanos Livos

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

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

— Katherine Mansfield

“I knew I was never going to write a screenplay, or a book, or direct a movie. I felt like I was never going…

— C.J. Roberts

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“It feels good to know that if I died tomorrow I would have absolutely no regrets about things I wanted to do in life…

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

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

— Gerard Olson

“I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been what I do. Writing chose me...”

— Té Russ

“I’ve long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn’t had any.…

— Logan Kain

“I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and…

— Dorothy Allison

“I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought…

— Shannon A. Thompson

“I used to imagine death would wipe my slate clean. But now I realize I want to live... If only to inscribe a new…

— Nicole Perlman