Your Manuscript Quotes
13 quotes by 10 authors
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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
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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
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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
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If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.
— Stanley Unwin
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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
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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.
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To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at…
— Albert Einstein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The point is, I can’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: