Manuscripts Quotes

52 Manuscripts quotes by 51 unique authors

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in. — Susie Bright
Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find… — Les Standiford
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two… — Sarah Waters
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. — Isaac D'Israeli
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. — Rita Mae Brown
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
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. — Jackie Collins
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. — Stephen King
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. — John Ruskin
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great… — Paul Theroux
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For… — Mark Twain
My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities… — Allen Ginsberg
When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page /… — Nicole Blackman
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
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited. — Barbara Mertz
Manuscripts do not burn. — Mikhail Bulgakov
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls… — Merce Cunningham
My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so… — Deborah Moggach
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. — Paul Theroux
My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules,… — Stanley B. Prusiner
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a… — Marie Lu
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to… — Danielle Steel
In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box… — Joan Didion
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books. — William Nicholson
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on… — Simon Winchester

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