Manuscripts Quotes

52 quotes by 51 authors

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet… — John Y. Campbell
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a… — Sol Stein
A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they… — Nicholas Sparks
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating… — Ezra Jack Keats
You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What… — Henry Wotton
The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody agrees on that.… — Andrew Rippin
All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep submitting… — MaryJanice Davidson
My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when… — James Weldon Johnson
The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact. — Wayne Grudem
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself… — Erik Larson
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding… — Chris Van Allsburg
I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts. — Harold Robbins
Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe… — Gautama Buddha
Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal… — Johannes Gutenberg
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in… — Scott Cunningham
So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med? — Brian Ferneyhough
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to… — Alain de Botton
But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep… — Katharine Weber

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