Auschwitz Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.

— Lionel Shriver

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

— Antonio Machado

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

— Chinua Achebe

“I was dissatisfied with my 1967 manuscript and decided to rewrite the book. It was the first of September, and I said to myself,…

— Oliver Sacks

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

— Joseph O'Neill

When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't…

— Dani Shapiro

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

I don't have a trunk of manuscripts.

— Henry Mancini

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

[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't trust it…

— Laszlo Radvanyi

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