#manuscript

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

#autobiographies #book #deeds #great #great nations

I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home. ↗

— Paul Taylor

#comes #could #down #get #happen

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. ↗

— Stephen King

#dad #had #i #manuscripts #mother

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

#appropriate #back #help #i #i do

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

#bookshelves #boxes #cardboard #converted #filled

How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn’t there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own? ↗

— Shaila M. Abdullah

#manuscript #writing #life

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

#fantastic #given #good #him #husband

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

— Dick Bruna

#authors #cover #get #i #make

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

— Brian Ferneyhough

#manuscripts #now #tired #written

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#big #big enough #come #editor #enclosing