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Manuscript Quotes by William Strunk, Jr.
- Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in…
- This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to…
More Manuscript Quotes
- 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