Counting Quote by Richard North Patterson

It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts…

— Patrick Rothfuss

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

— Dan Poynter

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

— Stanley Unwin

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

— Walter Kirn

This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder if it’s…

— Shandy L. Kurth

When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good,…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that.

— Kevin Spacey