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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






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