Manuscript Quotes

Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he`ll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn`t know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you`re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

(About being held up at an airport for refusing to be parted from the manuscript of her seventh "Harry Potter" book): The heightened security restrictions on the airlines made the journey back from New York interesting, as I refused to be parted from the manuscript of book seven. A large part of it is handwritten and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the U.S. They let me take it on thankfully, bound up in elastic bands. I don`t know what I would have done if they hadn`t -- sailed home probably.

I am considered to be an intellectual actor and I also am one inasmuch as I want to be aware of what I am doing. But I never try to influence the writing of the manuscript.

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

I was both thrilled and overjoyed when I heard about the re-discovery of this wonderful manuscript, a true original by an artist for the ages. This wonderful find brings back the excitement of fifteen years ago, when the Seminary celebrated the unearthing of an original score by another musical genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At that time, we called it the `Mozart miracle`. It seems appropriate that this time we are thankful for the `Beethoven blessing.` Through the extraordinary generosity of the Doane family, God has once again blessed us with a gift that is of rare and practical beauty.

I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.