Manuscripts Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in that world as I wrote the book [The Kite Runner] and to see the final page of that manuscript whir out of the printer was a very special feeling indeed.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Writing, Romance

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read them, but I do glance through some of them, and some people dont need to be writing, they have something else.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, People, Needs

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Book, Reading, Village

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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