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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot. — Kinky Friedman 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
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
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
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
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
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
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell 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
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
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. — Antonio Machado 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
I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority… — Chinua Achebe 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
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
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
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
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