Manuscript Quotes

106 quotes by 95 authors

Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a… — Deb Caletti
Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more… — Fran Lebowitz
Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader,… — Kathleen Grissom
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. — Antonio Machado
I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look. — Mark Leyner
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years. — Walter Jon Williams
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people.… — Jerry Pournelle
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close! — Omar Khayyam
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of… — Kiran Desai
Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is… — Katherine Dunham
There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you… — George Andrews
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. — Margaret Haddix
I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my… — Brian Jacques
Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to… — Tibor Kalman
Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as… — David Hewson
I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the… — Walt Whitman

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