Stanley Unwin quotes

Stanley Unwin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.”
-- Stanley Unwin

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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.”
-- Stanley Unwin

Source : Stanley Unwin (1926). “The truth about publishing. by Stanley Unwin ...”

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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.”
“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan
“Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2009). “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
“Decisions are made by those who show up.”

Source : Aaron Sorkin (2002). “The West Wing”
“You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”
“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”

Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
“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.”
“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.”
“I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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