#manuscript

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

#fantastic #given #good #him #husband

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

— Dick Bruna

#authors #cover #get #i #make

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med? ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#manuscripts #now #tired #written

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

#bothered #box #clean #during #fire

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

— Margaret Haddix

#i #i can #long #manuscript #place

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

— James Herriot

#box #comes #connoisseur #i #letter

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

#big #big enough #come #editor #enclosing

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

#control #director #egos #everything #give

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

#ask #gets #letters #manuscripts #might

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in. ↗

— Susie Bright

#box #coming #entire #get #i