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When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
Every day, somewhere, a writer is born. She comes into the world with a destiny: to share her words and proclaim a message.
For four days straights, I sit at my typewriter in my bedroom. Twenty of my typed pages, full of slashes and red-circled edits, become thirty-one in thick Strathmore white.
If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of people out there toiling over your unpublished manuscript, trying to make your way across that vast ocean in a bathtub, I can only say this to you: keep paddling. Well, either that or start vlogging.
I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the typing. Then it's retyped again. Then there's a third typing, which is the final one. Nothing should then remain that offends the eye.
writing is a sanity-saving companion for people in times of grief, loss, illness, and other accidents of fate.
These letters, and then words, and then sentences, that are written on your manuscript are all answers to questions. Writing is nothing but a long journey of confronting questions. Accomplishment will bring you peace, but will not make a writer of 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.
A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
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.
For a long time I was reporter to a journal, of no very wide circulation, whose editor has never yet seen fit to print the bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with writers, I got only my labor for my pains.
The art of writing is not unlike the act of screaming. A constant flow of otherworldly emotions with tempos high and hymns low. All to amount to some purpose not so loudly spoken: the whisper of change the heart of a writer weeps to reap.
Writing is the voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks out hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.
Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.
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.
A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
A journal is only a tool but when written with passion and dedication, its power is immeasurable.
So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?
What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.
Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.
The writer's life is a life of revisions.
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.
I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.
As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.
Writing is one of the loneliest of the arts; unlike the actor we have no immediate audience and must wait many long months, even years on occasion, for the splatter of applause to reach our ears, if indeed we are not damned by total neglect.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.
Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.
Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.
The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
Writers who learn to leave holes in manuscripts to be filled later master valuable skills in writing: they learn to proceed amid ambiguity and uncertainty
I created a manuscript, and she created a life. I
This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.
Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to say must finally be said. In the end, I see where my pencil has been leading me.
Write It, Work It, Publish
In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these.
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.
The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.
This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
Writing is reverse metamorphosis. One entombs a beautiful idea in a chrysalis of paper or electronic bits and bites, and when you're through, it waits to be reborn and take wing in the minds of your readers.
Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom.
There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love.
Ages ago, when I published 'Amelia's Notebook,' I'd sent it to traditional publishers I'd been working with, but nobody knew what to do with it. Tricycle was this small publisher who didn't know any better, and they took a chance.
Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.
A story unwritten is without beginning or end. But in its potential lies another story; and in the heartbeat before pen meets page, both stories exist at once, reflecting endless permutations of the other, before one of them disappears forever.
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.
I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.
A writer's courage: to leave a blank page blank.
A grateful journal, joyful soul.
You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.
The road to publication can be rough, take snacks and a friend.
Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.
There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
The most important copy you will ever write is that which you create and print each day on your own subconscious.
Remember to have a little faith. When you die, I believe, God isn't going to ask you what you published. God's going to ask you what you wrote.
As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.
All of us who write need a good editor.
- Sharon Langevin Crawford
The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.
Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.
Writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.
I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.
I have a manuscript that I'm almost done with, but I've been saying that forever. I'm on what I think will be the second-to-last chapter. It's a story about chance and coincidence.
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
One writes to find words' meanings.
Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.
Writing is acting on paper.
Great poets are great copy editors.
Write from your heart, write with blood and courage.
For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.
Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.
The road to publishing success is paved with writing.
Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls.
My best writing has always been in journals.
Writing is the silence of the soul struggling to be heard
I write for the beauty of the printed word
from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO