Unpublished Quote by Sylvia Plath

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read) about writing.

— Sylvia Plath

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

— Gillian Flynn

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

— Patti Smith

A writer wastes nothing.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I have many writings that I would not like it if they were published.

— Shakira

Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing—and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of…

— Rick Bass

There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the…

— Kate Mosse

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Getting published was like God stamping you 'acceptable,' and all of a sudden you can start writing for other places.

— Steven Rinella

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 Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

— Hilaire Belloc

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

— Winona Ryder