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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. -- Sylvia Plath
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them. -- Larry Niven
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. -- Mark Haddon
Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine. -- Bernard Cornwell
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too. -- George Stephen
I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country. -- John Philip Sousa
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes. -- Sergio Aragones
The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. -- Alice Meynell
The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood. -- Alice Meynell
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 But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels...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. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of people out there toiling over your unpublished manuscript, trying to make your way across that vast ocean in a bathtub, I can only say this to you: keep paddling. Well, either that or start vlogging. -- John Niven
Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do. -- Robert Webb
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. -- Nicholas Sparks
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading and enjoying romance novels at the time, the first two unpublished manuscripts I wrote were both romances. I sold my third novel, 'Call After Midnight,' to Harlequin Intrigue after submitting it unagented. -- Tess Gerritsen
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. -- John Niven
When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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. -- Scott Turow
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The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection. -- Junot Diaz
The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story. -- Khaled Hosseini
Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady. -- James Frey
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. -- Antonio Machado
There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard. -- Gillian Flynn
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
Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer. -- Robert Dugoni
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 a book out. -- Ethan Canin
In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave up, and the published writer didn't. -- Judy Delton
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents. -- Barbara Tuchman
To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with. -- Christina Stead
All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation. -- Max Lucado
Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later ... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies. -- Salvador Dali
We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance -- Ernest Hemingway

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