Manuscript Quotes
106 quotes by 97 authors
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The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.
— George Andrews
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Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript…
— Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.…
— Annie Dillard
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You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,…
— Samuel Johnson
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The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.
— Stanley Unwin
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Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and…
— Thomas Browne
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I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict…
— Mark Twain
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If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help…
— Mark Twain
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I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they…
— Gardner Dozois
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I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years…
— Porochista Khakpour
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To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.
— Edith Wharton
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Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the…
— Doris Grumbach
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush…
— Vikas Swarup
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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their…
— Tobias Wolff
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Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.
— Kinky Friedman
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Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope…
— Edna Buchanan
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What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,'…
— Henry Sydnor Harrison
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Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter…
— David Herbert Donald
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I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one Im…
— Steve Berry
Who Wrote These Manuscript Quotes
97 authors contributed a total of 106 Manuscript Quotes, led by these top contributors: