(27 quotes found)
“Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to get terms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.”
Olivia Goldsmith
“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
“The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.”
Chris Van Allsburg
“When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner and make her fix it.”
Connie Willis
“Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.”
Zahi Hawass
“But every single Jewish manuscript is evidence of an individual's commitment to that manuscript.”
David Kraemer
“In 1987 or '88, Etienne and Nadine came with a manuscript, ... It was all handwritten, with illustrations by Nadine. They asked if I would set it to music.”
Roger Waters
“The manuscript was so brittle, it would crumble at the slightest touch.”
Rodolphe Kasser
“I used to throw away my holograph manuscripts after I'd typed them, but I'm keeping a lot of them now, because obviously, at 50, I'm starting to think, if anyone ever is interested in me after I'm dead, they can look and see.”
“I gave him the manuscript and let him do what he would with it,”
Tim Sample
