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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.

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?

When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.

The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.

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.

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

This was a manuscript of the night we couldn’t read.

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

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

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.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

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.

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.

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.

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.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

Manuscripts don't burn.

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.

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.

Manuscripts do not burn.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

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.

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.

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.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!

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.

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.

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.

Anything added can be subtracted