“ Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
- 885
“ Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts — the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 863
“ Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. ”
- Oliver Herford- Copy
- 544
“ Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. ”
- Oliver Herford- Copy
- 2.1K
“ A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. ”
- Ring Lardner- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write… Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up. ”
- Chris Van Allsburg- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it. ”
- Haruki Murakami- Copy
- 3.1K
“ From reincarnated sources and through prenatal causes I was born with unquenchable hope and unfaltering faith in God and guardian spirits. I often wept myself to sleep after a day of disappointments and worries but woke in the morning singing aloud with the joy of life… ”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home. ”
- Paul Taylor- Copy
- 3.7K
“ As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos. ”
- Nicholas Meyer- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Children ask better questions than adults. May I have a cookie? Why is the sky blue? and What does a cow say? are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than Where's your manuscript? Why haven't you called? and Who's your lawyer? ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I have been told of the many extra advantages of word-processing, and I acknowledge them. But, apart from other reasons, I find that a sentence, a page, a book, assumes a different nature when it is first in manuscript, second in typescript, and third in page proofs. ”
- Winston Graham- Copy
- 3K
“ Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to get terms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists. ”
- Olivia Goldsmith- Copy
- 2.8K
“ But all my other novels - before Freya - I wrote at a rate of five thousand words every day for around twenty days, at the end of which I'd have a 100k manuscript - and feel wrecked. Then I leave it fore a while and come back a month or so later and edit, cut, rewrite. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
- 3.9K
“ You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
- 2.7K
“ When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him not to publish it, saying, "The world is bad enough with the Bible; what would it be without it?". ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.1K
“ There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre. ”
- Alexander Cockburn- Copy
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