Definition of Manuscript

Manuscript

Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.

A literary or musical composition written with the hand, as distinguished from a printed copy.

Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript.

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Manuscript Quotations

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley

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

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
Margaret Haddix

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.
Katherine Dunham

I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it.
Chuck Klosterman

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Oliver Herford

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.
Tobias Wolff

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

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.
Jerry Pournelle

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
Walter Jon Williams

And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
David Herbert Donald

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.
Paul Taylor

I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
Dick Bruna

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.
Nicholas Meyer

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Ring Lardner

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Manuscript Translations

manuscript in Dutch is handschrift, manuscript, kopij
manuscript in French is manuscrit
manuscript in German is Manuskript, Druckvorlage
manuscript in Portuguese is manuscrito
manuscript in Spanish is manuscrito
manuscript in Swedish is manuskript

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