Unwritten Stories Quotes

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.

There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.

Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that world completely. Search it to find your deepest longings and most terrible fears. Let imagination carry you as far as it may, as long as you recount the voyage with excitement and wonder. But this is the most important rule: write the book you most long to read.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

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

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

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

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.

There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's work to be done.

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.

There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.

There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody would want to read a book about anyway.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about by everybody, and then the place that's never been written about.

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.