Quotes of: Manuscripts Keyword

After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things. Sometimes, that great thing can be death.

Johnny Kiddow

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

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Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

Manuscript Found in Accra

Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.

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No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.

Manuscript Found in Accra

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude.

Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

It is difficult for me to commit to an manuscript. Once, I get finished writing it. I get this feeling of adrenaline, and satisfaction. This is when the amusement begins, for the writer's side of me.

Mary Sage Nguyen

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

Nicholas Sparks

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

Mark Leyner

Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.

Katherine Dunham

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

In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.

Joan Didion

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

Karl Marlantes

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

Erik Larson

Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.

Love

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

Terry Pratchett

The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after the close of the Old Testament canon.

The Origin of the Bible

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

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Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul, because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

Manuscript Found in Accra

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

Manuscript Found in Accra

To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.

The Queen's Fool