Manuscripts Quotes - Page 10

• I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

  James Herriot

  Letters, Nasty, Boxes

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• 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

  Husband, Would Be, Sometimes

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• When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.

  Kiran Desai

  Mother, Growing Up, Book

  "Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity" by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. April 21, 2007.

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• Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

  Omar Khayyam

  Sweet, Spring, Rose

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.222, University of Virginia Press

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• Marion Zimmer Bradley took apart my first submission to her, covered the manuscript in red ink revisions, and told me to try her again. I had never been so reeling with authorial joy as I had been that day, holding Marion's letter and seeing that ravaged manuscript - finally, it meant that someone cared!

  Vera Nazarian

  Joy, Trying, Ink

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• I think the best advice I got was to not worry about what other people would think while you were working on your first draft. Focus on getting it out of your head. You can always edit the manuscript later.

  Eden Robinson

  Thinking, People, Worry

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, Done, World

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• I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

  Chinua Achebe

  Majority, Want, Good Enough

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• As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Beautiful, Writing, Night

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• When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed.

  Chinua Achebe

  Agency, Should Have, Want

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