William T. Vollmann

So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with belief in my heart, I've not yet won even a jaywalking ticket, and unlike my father, whom I fault in this respect, I refrain from opting out of jury duty; instead, they mostly kick me out.

American Novelist

Rhiannon Giddens

When you hear composer, you think, like, Beethoven: guy in a powdered wig, at a piano, furiously scribbling on manuscript paper. That's not the only image that a composer should bring up, you know. But that's kind of what we've said it is.

American Musician

Jami Attenberg

I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.

American Author

Kiran Desai

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.

Indian Author

Maria Konnikova

Of course, authors can still burn their manuscripts - but once something is out in the world, especially if it ever saw the digital light of day, it's harder and harder to call it back.

American Writer

Erik Larson

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

Gayle Lynds

I've seen unpublished manuscripts where the writer doesn't know they are making fun of the villain - but they are. If you aren't afraid of your villain, how can your hero be afraid?

Umberto Eco

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

Italian Novelist

Heather Brooke

Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.

American Journalist

Stephen King

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

Author

Manuscript refers to a work's format before becoming a public document like a book.

Before Publication

A manuscript often undergoes extensive editing and revision during its development.

Editing Process

Manuscripts have an intimate quality since they may contain author notes or corrections.

Personal Touch

Historical manuscripts can be key resources for studying the past, often preserved in museums.

Cultural Relics

Each historical manuscript possesses unique handwriting, revealing clues about its origins.

Unique Handwriting

Protecting old manuscripts involves special care to prevent damage from light or moisture.

Preservation Efforts

 He purchased the manuscript from the cash-strapped priest at the college, and eventually brought it to the U.S., where experts have continued to puzzle over it for more than a century. Cryptologists say the writing has all the characteristics of a real language, just one that no one's ever seen before. What makes it seem real is that in actual languages,

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 So I just lifted my face up from the manuscript and I directed my comments to an empty corner of the room. And I said aloud, "Listen you, thing, you and I both know that if this book isn't brilliant that is not entirely my fault, right? Because you can see that I am putting everything I have into this, I don't have any more than this.

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 open air and I I tried it so I just lifted my face up from the manuscript and I directed my comments to an empty corner of the room and I said aloud listen you thing you and I both know that if this book isn't brilliant that is not entirely my fault right because you can see that I am putting everything I have into this

 wrote it I woke up with this melody in my head and I you know went rifling around my room for some manuscript paper and found some and within three minutes a song had been born and you'll hear it's a very simple little melody and so I'm just very thankful that these things happen during sleep and for you math

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 It's a sizable chunk of human culture. There's much more in there's manuscripts, there newspapers, there's things that are not text, like art and paintings. These all happen to be on our computers, on computers across the world. And when that happens, that will transform the way we have

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 which defeats even the strongest knights. Or it could represent humility, and a knight’s need to vanquish his own pride. Many illuminated manuscripts were copies of religious or classical texts, and the bookmakers incorporated their own ideas and opinions in illustrations.

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 deciphering the Codex today the conjurations seem to support the theory of a lone scribe a single monk atoning for his sins penning the most ambitious book of his time but the question remains how could such an eerily flawless manuscript exist

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 people inside they don't stop you they just let you pass on back that was our strategy they enlist the support of village chiefs stash the manuscripts in various houses right on the river bank and then boat men go up the river making

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 If you want a glimpse of Marie Curie's manuscripts, you'll have to sign a waiver and put on protective gear to shield yourself from radiation contamination. Madame Curie's remains, too, were interred in a lead-lined coffin,

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 If you process the same two images in a different way, you can actually get rid of the prayer book text. And this is terribly important, because the diagrams in the manuscript are the unique source for the diagrams