Essays Quote by Christine Sneed

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

— Laini Taylor

Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of…

— Mary Doria Russell

It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.

— Golo Mann

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

— Dan Poynter

All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable…

— George Eliot

If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't…

— Mark Twain

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work,…

— Richard North Patterson

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

— Chinua Achebe

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and…

— Edna Buchanan

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind…

— Michael Koryta

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

— Elinor Glyn

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of…

— Alexander Cockburn