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
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates.… — Baruch Halpern Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh… — William Manchester 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
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the… — Tom Robbins 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
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out… — Isaac Newton 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 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
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
Five-hundred years ago people were saying in manuscripts, "Can you believe these kids today?" They were saying that same phrase everyone says… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. — Rita Mae Brown 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 think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can… — Mac Barnett 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
“Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them --… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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