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
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
Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published… — Jami Attenberg 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
“Petrarch sometimes wrote letters to long-dead authors. He was also a dedicated hunter of classic manuscripts. Once, after discovering some previously unknown… — David Markson Copy Share Image
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited… — Katherine Paterson 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
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as… — Tanith Lee 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
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
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation,… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999),… — Laura Mullen 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
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
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
I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody… — Andrew Rippin 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
No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of… — Robert Genn 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
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
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the… — Chris Van Allsburg 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 wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go… — Jess Walter 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
There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in… — Khaled Hosseini 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 can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no… — Paul Theroux 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 wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life… — Nina Berberova 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
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters. — Will Allison Copy Share Image
I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound.… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
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