Manuscripts Quote by Harold Robbins Download Open image “I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.” — Harold Robbins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Manuscripts Unfinished
As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start -… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
“I walked over to her. She took my hand. “You’re a fine kid, Frank. There’s something wild and hard inside you that needs gentling,… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
“When I wrote The Betsy, I spent a lot of time in Detroit with the Ford family. The old man running the place had… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out. — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
“You’re getting two C-notes and a one-way ticket. Make sure you never come back this way.” He jerked back on her finger. She screamed.… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife. — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
“My salary was ten dollars a week, to which I added the extra two dollars Harry used to give me and about three dollars… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
“A long time ago Marty once compared me to Hitler. I laughed then for I didn’t understand what he meant. Now I know. I… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t too tough a trip. There were many others like me riding the rods for one reason or another, some heading nowhere in… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
“laughed aloud. “Don’t worry, Mr. Moroni. It’s as safe as an automobile.” — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
“I can wait,’ she said simply. ‘He has to have this chance.’ She drew me down to the chair beside her and rested my… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
“My aunt touched my shoulder, I opened my eyes startled for a moment. She was smiling softly but I could see the tears sparkling… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
