Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.
I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.
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I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.
She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which is always such a mixed bag of letters, recollections, and other data.
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you...
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.
A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?
When I was 15, I never thought I'd live to see 21. And then I became 21, and I'm like, 'I'll never live to see 30.'
Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I always thought the more personal a song was, the more people would want to hear it.
I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.
I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.
The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.
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Other quotes touch on constitutional rights never explicitly written down, and the constant stream of new problems people have never faced before. See also Always Quotes and Good Quotes.
