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So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med? -- Brian Ferneyhough
Manuscripts don't burn. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
Manuscripts do not burn. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
Logos (The Biblical Manuscripts/Canon of Scriptures) & Rhema (The Person/Life/Words/Death/Resurrection of Jesus Christ): The 'special' & 'ultimate' revelation of God. Without these revelations God would be unsearchable, unknowable, and inscrutable."~R. Alan Woods [2013] -- R. Alan Woods
Manuscript editions didn't immediately die out with the printing explosion that burst across Europe in the 1460s and 1470s. Manuscripts continued to be produced into the 16th century, many decades after presses had spread to most minor cities in Western Europe. -- Ian Lamont
I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts. -- Harold Robbins
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. -- Jackie Collins
I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters. -- Will Allison
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. -- Walter Wager
After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.' -- Ruth Glick
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. -- Stephen King
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. -- Paul Theroux
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in. -- Susie Bright
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. -- John Ruskin
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
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time. -- Simon Winchester
A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1. -- Nicholas Sparks
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
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
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
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies. -- Marilyn Hacker
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood. -- Erik Larson
I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents. -- Jami Attenberg
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.' -- Dan Brown
Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manuscripts, and those necessarily must be very few in number. Learn from this to value your books, and always handle them with care. -- Dorothea Dix
My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated. -- Stanley B. Prusiner
I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to. -- Jess Walter
My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals. -- Deborah Moggach
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
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading and enjoying romance novels at the time, the first two unpublished manuscripts I wrote were both romances. I sold my third novel, 'Call After Midnight,' to Harlequin Intrigue after submitting it unagented. -- Tess Gerritsen
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices. -- Frederic Chopin
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. -- Rita Mae Brown
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. -- John W. Campbell
My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet. -- Laird Barron
The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact. -- Wayne Grudem
If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts? -- Dan Poynter
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited. -- Barbara Mertz
I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books. -- Rene Magritte
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I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist. -- Nelson DeMille
A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God. -- Willis R. Whitney
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. -- John Y. Campbell
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written. -- Karl Marx
In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in fact reliable." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] -- R. Alan Woods
I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way. -- Jonathan Lethem
A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating. -- Patrick Modiano
I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts. -- Tim Hunt
When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me -- Nicole Blackman
Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human nature - what we would call genetically determined. -- Noam Chomsky
I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts. -- Edwidge Danticat
I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not. -- Rob Roberge
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday ... -- Freya Stark
Himmler wants to send an expedition to Tibet to look for ancient manuscripts on the Aryans. The man is like a little schoolgirl. What culture is there in an old jug, I ask you? -- Adolf Hitler
Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come his way have probably been so described by their authors. -- Stanley Unwin
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one! -- Marie Lu

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