Inspirational Quote by David Herbert Donald

And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though…

— David Herbert Donald

Abraham Lincoln was a good old man. He hopped out the window with his Dick in hand. He said, Excuse me ladies, just doing…

— Broken Soul

“A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about…

— Shelby Foote

Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups…

— Peter Schuyler

We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel; and as…

— Samuel Sharpe

Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far…

— Fran Lebowitz

In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish…

— Tanith Lee

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene…

— Don Roff

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm…

— Edwidge Danticat

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough…

— Danielle Steel

If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot eyes and…

— Eoin Colfer

To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just…

— Christina Stead