“There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love.” — Himanshu Chhabra 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
“The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.” — Anurag Shourie 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
Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
“An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of… — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
“You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper” — Teresa Nielsen Haydense Copy Share Image
Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript… — Lady Gregory 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
“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
By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted… — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Never give up. The same manuscript may appeal to one agent and not to another. It's a matter of taste, and it's… — Kathryn Stockett 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
“In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [ Master and Margarita ] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains -… — Mikhail Bulgakov 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
... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an… — Francis Maitland Balfour Copy Share Image
“You’ve come about your manuscript? It’s with the reader; no, I’m getting that wrong, it’s been read, very interesting, of course, now… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I feel as if it were not for me to record, even though this manuscript is intended for no eyes but mine,… — Charles Dickens 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
“It is curious to note how slowly the mechanism of the intellectual life improves. Contrast the ordinary library facilities of a middle-class… — H.G. Wells 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
“[I]n the long run it's worthwhile to see the manuscript as a text capable of improvement.” — Barbara Sjoholm Copy Share Image
“Childhood memories surge back more vividly midway through life – like some palimpsest whose original text suddenly reappears after the manuscript has… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
“Trying to achieve an error-free manuscript is almost like trying to fly to the moon on a paper airplane.” — Jon Michael Riley 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
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