Done Quote by Akira Toriyama

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

— Chinua Achebe

Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.

— Heather Brooke

Your first attempt will be terrible… Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft… Whenever someone sends me…

— Pamela Druckerman

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to…

— Terry Pratchett

If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real…

— Steven Pressfield

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have…

— George R. R. Martin

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

— Margaret Haddix

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to…

— Anonymous

My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's…

— Julia Glass

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it…

— James Lee Burke

For me - showing a half-finished manuscript is tricky. Just as a bird will get spooked and abandon her eggs if some outside party…

— Donna Tartt

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine.…

— Pam Houston