I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. — Walter Wager Copy Share Image
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.' — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world. — Chinua Achebe 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
To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult… — Terence McKenna 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
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot… — Eoin Colfer 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
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
There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything… — George Andrews Copy Share Image
Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By virtue of the standing and prestige of President Ben-Zvi, some 3,000 manuscripts originating from Arab lands, some of them of major… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile… — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the… — Alexander Cockburn 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
“Manuscripts were not easy to read, by later typographic standards, and what readers found in manuscripts they tended to commit at least… — Walter J. Ong 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
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts,… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript,… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,… — Sarah Waters 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
I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters. — Will Allison Copy Share Image
It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel. — Golo Mann Copy Share Image
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
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