#manuscripts

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

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

— Walter Wager

#delusion #i #keep #library #manuscripts

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

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

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