#manuscript

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

— Oliver Herford

#leisure #manuscript #returned #something #submitted

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

— Aleister Crowley

#greek #illiterate #like #looking #man

I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#dealing #events #every #extensively #fairly

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts. ↗

— Harold Robbins

#i #leave #manuscripts #unfinished #won

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#book #book writing #edit #editor #enjoyable

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#agent #enough #finally #find #fortunate

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#cookies #disks #great #greatest #habits

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. ↗

— Stephen King

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