Unwritten Ideas Quotes

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.

Never regret what you don't write.

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.

... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one's notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one's dearest readers.