#manuscript

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


Stephen King


#dad #had #i #manuscripts #mother

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.


William Nicholson


#bookshelves #boxes #cardboard #converted #filled

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

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

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

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