Closets Quote by John W. Campbell Download Open image “Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.” — John W. Campbell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Closets Editors Fiction writers Fiction writing Home Left Manuscripts Reading and writing Reading writing Shelves Writers reading Writing and reading
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today. — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want… — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been shut in a closet, and he's on the other side, and he doesn't have the key to unlock the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while. — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big! — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
All of my life, actually, I had a real strong relationship with God, but I was always in the closet about it. The only… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
