#manuscript

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

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