Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
“[I]n the long run it's worthwhile to see the manuscript as a text capable of improvement.” — Barbara Sjoholm Copy Share Image
I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“son Francis was two years old. The manuscript was left to languish for years, but in the meanwhile” — Louise Westerhout Copy Share Image
It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel. — Golo Mann Copy Share Image
“There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love.” — Himanshu Chhabra Copy Share Image
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
I like when the manuscript keeps its authentic style and form, so even if I have accepted some advice from editors, I… — Lidija Dimkovska Copy Share Image
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Do not be afraid to seize whatever you have written and cut it to ribbons; it can always be restored to its… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“Manuscripts were not easy to read, by later typographic standards, and what readers found in manuscripts they tended to commit at least… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
“How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a… — Shaila Abdullah Copy Share Image
“In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [ Master and Margarita ] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains -… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Ben ducked beneath the arbor and paused by the fishpond when a memory crept upon him like a shadow. This was the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.” — Nancy Holmes Copy Share Image
“Here’s her story, a tale of the bear-keeper’s daughter and the Empire: what happened to her and what happened because of her.” — Carol Strickland Copy Share Image
“My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at… — Lizz Clements Copy Share Image
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the… — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
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