Manuscript Quotes

Manuscript Quote of the day

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.

It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.

The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.

You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper

There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love.

Childhood memories surge back more vividly midway through life – like some palimpsest whose original text suddenly reappears after the manuscript has been chemically treated.

It is difficult for me to commit to an manuscript. Once, I get finished writing it. I get this feeling of adrenaline, and satisfaction. This is when the amusement begins, for the writer's side of me.