#manuscript

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

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

— Walter Jon Williams

#over #pages #rift #thousand #took

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#already #bring #completion #course #during

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#fairies #gifts #good #good and bad #i

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#leisure #manuscript #returned #something #submitted

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#because #essential #manuscripts #publishers #read

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

— Aleister Crowley

#greek #illiterate #like #looking #man

And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that! ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#carefully #could #finally #good #helped

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#escape #feared #feeling #hated #i