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
Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language.
Antonia Fraser
