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

After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.' — Ruth Glick

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

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

Soli Deo gloria.
Latin for Glory to God alone.
Bach used the initials (SDG) at the end of
all his musical manuscripts. — Bach

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

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters. — Will Allison

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

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

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. — Willis R. Whitney

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

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published. — Dan Poynter

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

Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. — Paul Theroux

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts. — Harold Robbins

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

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet. — Laird Barron

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

Manuscripts do not burn. — Mikhail Bulgakov

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. — Rita Mae Brown

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell

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

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

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 — Nicole Blackman

It is necessary to possess the oldest manuscripts, they aid genuine references in case of doubt. — Auliq Ice

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

Nowadays I find so many 'evidences' in the manuscripts, it seems authors are colluding to wipe out the evidence from the written form. — James Oinam

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things. Sometimes, that great thing can be death. — Nina -

He was distinguished by a red eye that had hemorrhaged while proofreading unsolicited manuscripts. — Robert Klose

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