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• The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards. — George Andrews
• Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before… — Arthur Quiller-Couch
• Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats… — Annie Dillard
• You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets… — Samuel Johnson
• The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein
• If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Unknown Author
• Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature,… — Thomas Browne
• I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because… — Mark Twain
• If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them --… — Mark Twain
• I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was… — Gardner Dozois
• I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour
• 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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