#edit

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. ↗

— John Grisham

#beneath #big #big picture #book #card

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#even #i #like #much #publishers

Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#carrying #clothes #conducted #crew #eva

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars. ↗

— James Gunn

#expedition #hope #i #mars #off

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#accepted #aware #been #being #editors

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#editing #i #jobs #kinds #mostly

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#again #agent #anywhere #draft #editor

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit. ↗

— Jessica Hahn

#bimbo #cartoon #cartoon character #character #consider

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#due #easier #environment #failure #far

You don't go to the people that are just like you. You go to the people that you have to earn their credit. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#earn #go #just #like #people