#manuscript

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. ↗

— Oliver Herford

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

— Jackie Collins

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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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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

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I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Brian Ferneyhough

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Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

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