#manuscripts

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

— Jackie Collins

#because #essential #manuscripts #publishers #read

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

#cookies #disks #great #greatest #habits

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

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

— Brian Ferneyhough

#manuscripts #now #tired #written

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

#bothered #box #clean #during #fire