Trying to achieve an error-free manuscript is almost like…

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

— Alan Perlis

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

— Anonymous

The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

No one who lives in error is free.

— Euripides

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is…

— Steve McConnell

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person…

— Donald Rumsfeld

A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript…

— Carolyn Forche

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of…

— Alexander Cockburn

“Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.”

— Nancy Holmes

When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also,…

— E. L. Konigsburg

“[I]n the long run it's worthwhile to see the manuscript as a text capable of improvement.”

— Barbara Sjoholm

“There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to…

— Karl Marlantes

To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just…

— Christina Stead

“Ben ducked beneath the arbor and paused by the fishpond when a memory crept upon him like a shadow. This was the spot where…

— Kate Morton