Stanley Unwin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.
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Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations.
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Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come his way have probably been so described by their authors.
-- Stanley Unwin
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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
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I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
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