You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was… — Gardner Dozois Copy Share Image
“Manuscript editions didn't immediately die out with the printing explosion that burst across Europe in the 1460s and 1470s. Manuscripts continued to… — Ian Lamont Copy Share Image
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing… — Henry Sydnor Harrison 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
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of… — Johannes Gutenberg Copy Share Image
Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have… — Charlie Campbell 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 told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to… — Olivia Goldsmith Copy Share Image
You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of… — Henry Wotton Copy Share Image
But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Your first attempt will be terrible… Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft… Whenever someone… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his… — Dean Koontz 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
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
In the night ride across the Wular lake a small storm made me worry for the safety of my manuscript (Rajatarangini). It… — Aurel Stein Copy Share Image
I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
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