If I'm not in an environment where I can record, it's great to be able to write something down, to be able… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile… — Scott Cunningham 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
Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
For me - showing a half-finished manuscript is tricky. Just as a bird will get spooked and abandon her eggs if some… — Donna Tartt 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
I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from… — David Lehman 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
After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.' — Ruth Glick 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
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
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
In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while. The truth… — Elizabeth Sims 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
Marion Zimmer Bradley took apart my first submission to her, covered the manuscript in red ink revisions, and told me to try… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than… — David Hewson 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
