#manuscript

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

— Oliver Herford

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

— Jackie Collins

#because #essential #manuscripts #publishers #read

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

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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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 keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. ↗

— Walter Wager

#delusion #i #keep #library #manuscripts

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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How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn’t there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own? ↗

— Shaila M. Abdullah

#manuscript #writing #life

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

— Brian Ferneyhough

#manuscripts #now #tired #written