Bigs Quote by Gardner Dozois

If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real…

— Steven Pressfield

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This…

— Ring Lardner

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

— James Herriot

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

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make…

— James M. Barrie

“There, stacked high on his desk, was a tower of paper. Thick slabs of manuscript. Slush. Unsolicited, unagented, unloved. This was where dreams came…

— Will Ferguson

This was a manuscript of the night we couldn’t read.

— Jack Kerouac

“You’ve come about your manuscript? It’s with the reader; no, I’m getting that wrong, it’s been read, very interesting, of course, now I remember!…

— Italo Calvino

Marion Zimmer Bradley took apart my first submission to her, covered the manuscript in red ink revisions, and told me to try her again.…

— Vera Nazarian

I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried…

— Bill Watterson

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

— Tanith Lee

When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to…

— Viktor E. Frankl