Drawers Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Download Open image “The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drawers Manuscripts
“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“The ancient pages rose among the others, palisaded with strange letters and words, the faint script hardly more readable than the footprints of birds.… — Lawrence Norfolk Copy Share Image
“A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.” — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Manuscripts were not easy to read, by later typographic standards, and what readers found in manuscripts they tended to commit at least somewhat to… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“What immediately strikes me is just how tattered the books are. Some of the spines have split. The binding has loosened and the threads… — Anders Rydell Copy Share Image
“There was nothing like the smell of books, particularly old books—that magical combination of oaky aged paper, the rich robustness of leather, the silkiness… — H.Y. Hanna Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good. ” — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Wow," Liv said, when I dropped the mallet back into the drawer. "That looked like fun. I call dibs on the next over-the-top destruction… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Uh... ," Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration. "I'm kidding," I said. "It passed the lethal-amulet test,… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows. — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday) or something… — Michelle Herman Copy Share Image
Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
I found something" Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me. "It was… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
