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
The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. — Stephen King 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
A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I think the best advice I got was to not worry about what other people would think while you were working on… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. According to some ancient manuscripts 9 is not a prime number, but beyond… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
I worked in the mail room at CAA when I was in high school. I worked in the literary department, too. That… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that… — Stanley Unwin Copy Share Image
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise;… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“To my amazement, miraculously, the lid suddenly loosened and slid all the way open, revealing its hidden cargo: A stack of small… — Syrie James 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
To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
I felt that there were so many things that could go wrong, in adapting The Hunger Games , and I had this… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact. — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in. — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books. — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you… — Andrew McAleer Copy Share Image
A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Stanley Unwin Copy Share Image
Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
