Unpublished Works Quotes

The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that were not harnessed, songs that were not sung, and drama pieces that were never acted.

What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

I'm one of those people who always wanted to be a writer, so I have a fair amount of juvenilia, though fortunately, I was too old for my juvenilia to be on the Internet.

I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

I really do love 'Panama.' But I'd also have to admit that right now, if I were driven to write another novel like that, I wouldn't even try to find a publisher for it. It simply wouldn't be published. I'd be writing it to put in my closet upstairs.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

I had left the music industry at the end of 2001, after 10 years, and had spent three years writing every single day - producing two unpublished novels, one abandoned novel, and three unproduced screenplays. The word 'no' and I were on more than nodding terms. The word 'no' and I were talking about going on holiday together.

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.

'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end of the book and writing other stuff... My life as a writer was carried on against the odds. I had written four unpublished novels by then... as a writer of fiction, I hadn't gotten very far. I just wanted to do it.

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.