Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story… — Christine Sneed 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
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 don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its… — Rob Roberge 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
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
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
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close! — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us… — Johannes Gutenberg Copy Share Image
When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. — Walter Wager 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
Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper 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
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 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
“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
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 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
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
