It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel. — Golo Mann Copy Share Image
I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters. — Will Allison Copy Share Image
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
“There are more differences among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein 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
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape… — Tanith Lee 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
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close! — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go… — Jess Walter 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
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 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
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
We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read… — Max Lucado 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
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 had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999),… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause… — Vera Brittain 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
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation,… — Doris Grumbach 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
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. — Walter Wager Copy Share Image
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
