Stanley Unwin Quotes

#1. If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

Stanley Unwin

#2. When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. I can't reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can't state at length what I've said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can't explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.

Omar Khayyam

#4. The truth is, not one of is innocent. We all have sins to confess.

C.W. Gortner

#5. Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like aaaaa ... beeeee ... ceeee.

Sam Kinison

#6. 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

#7. The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of ease in Florida. It's about doing work that has meaning, work that makes a difference, and doing that work with people you care about.

Joe Tye

#8. Form, not the crashing waves far below at the base of the cliff. She looked eerily like the sketch that Kenneth had drawn of

Mary Jo Putney

#9. I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's in my office, and it has watched over each of the fifteen books I've written. It also helped me find my wife.

Ben Mezrich

#10. Create your inner peace to enjoy the endless beauties of life.

Debasish Mridha

#11. I loved someone so much that I broke up with him because I didn't want to get hurt. Then when he proved he loved me back, I broke up with him again. I'm a fucking mess, but so are you. Most of us are.

Sarah Colonna

#12. The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

Saint Augustine

#13. No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.

Mark Helprin

#14. For a moment of intense terror she paused upon the giddy pinnacle, as if in contemplation of her own sublimity, then trembled and tottered, and
came down.

Edgar Allan Poe

#15. The early 1990s was a time of great advancements in precooked bacon technology. Pork producers, food labs, and agricultural schools such as Iowa State University began investing substantially in precooked R&D.

David Sax

#16. 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

#17. I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

William Sadler

#18. You temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again.

Thomas Hardy