After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.' — Ruth Glick 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
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. — Jackie Collins 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
Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though… — David Herbert Donald 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
In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. — Isaac D'Israeli 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
Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century… — Geza Vermes Copy Share Image
In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man’s life… — Jessica Helfand Copy Share Image
It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel;… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“I wish that, the way secret manuscripts ought to, the thing arrived on our laps bound in Moroccan leather, dusty and smelling… — Derek Grzelewski Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in… — Arthur Plotnik Copy Share Image
Historically, the Old Charges fall into three groups. The first comprises the two earliest versions, the Regius MS of c.1390 and the… — John Hamill Copy Share Image
I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript,… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts,… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
Himmler wants to send an expedition to Tibet to look for ancient manuscripts on the Aryans. The man is like a little… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
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