Famous quotes containing the words original and/or manuscript:
“There is no original truth, only original error.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)
“The manuscript lay like a dust-rag on his desk, and Eitel found, as he had found before, that the difficulty of art was that it forced a man back on his life, and each time the task was more difficult and distasteful.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)