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

- Margaret Haddix

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

- Mark Leyner

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

- Oliver Herford

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

- Walter Jon Williams