Manuscript Quotes

106 quotes by 97 authors

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an… — William Manchester
No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but… — Robert Genn
I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box. — James Herriot
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and… — Karen Thompson Walker
Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars and… — Charlie Campbell
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and… — Richard Armour
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. — Aleister Crowley
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature. — Umberto Eco
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. — Oliver Herford
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. — Samuel Johnson
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some… — James Patterson
I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that… — Terry Pratchett
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that… — Isaac Asimov
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in… — Thomas Wolfe
During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against… — Max Brooks
How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find… — Anna Quindlen
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,… — Susan Vreeland
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies… — Ray Bradbury
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin… — Dale Carnegie
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. — James M. Barrie

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97 authors contributed a total of 106 Manuscript Quotes, led by these top contributors: