Quotes of: Manuscript Keyword

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Stephen King

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

Bruce Jackson

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

You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper

Teresa Nielsen Haydense

I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.

Will Allison

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Aleister Crowley

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

Walter Jon Williams

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

Walter Wager

In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [ ] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains - editing, and it's going to be hard. I will have to pay close attention to details. Maybe even re-write some things... 'What's its future?' you ask? I don...

Mikhail Bulgakov

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Dick Bruna

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Manuscript Found in Accra

After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.'

Ruth Glick

In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.

Middlemarch

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.

Mandorla

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

Manuscript Found in Accra

Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.

Manuscript Found in Accra

My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Samuel Johnson

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

Margaret Haddix

Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.

Tibor Kalman

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

James Herriot

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

Michael Koryta