Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language.
Antonia Fraser
Well, I`ve found myself a lot of times with student manuscripts, saying to them that it worries me that their work seems hermetically sealed.
Akio Morita
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
Danielle Steel
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.
Andrew Alford
A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
Nicholas Sparks
[When it comes to writing, Colfer admits to being a bit of a perfectionist. Over time, he`s learned to relax a little but initially, no one read his manuscripts until he was completely satisfied with the result. These days he shows Jackie the final draft....
Eoin Colfer