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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact. — Wayne Grudem 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
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 need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books. — Rene Magritte 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
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
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
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters. — Will Allison 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
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
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
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
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
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
