Your Manuscript Quotes

13 quotes by 10 authors

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript… — 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 and emphases go.… — Annie Dillard
You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,… — Samuel Johnson
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Stanley Unwin
If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help… — Mark Twain
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… — William Strunk, Jr.
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at… — Albert Einstein
Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that.… — Mark Twain
Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more… — Fran Lebowitz
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people.… — Jerry Pournelle
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
The point is, I canâ€™t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being… — Kathryn Stockett

Who Wrote These Your Manuscript Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 13 Your Manuscript Quotes as follows: