The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.
– Anurag Shourie
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- Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician. – Anurag Shourie
- Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend. – Anurag Shourie
- For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period. – Anurag Shourie
- It’s a strange feeling when you realise that you have become a passive bystander, watching the quirks of your own fate with an icy indifference. – Anurag Shourie
- Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon’s knife. – Anurag Shourie
- An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder. – Anurag Shourie
- There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness. – Anurag Shourie
- A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long. – Anurag Shourie
- The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language. – Anurag Shourie
- Not very tall, not very dark but very…very handsome,’ was his way of describing himself. – Anurag Shourie
- Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead. – Anurag Shourie
- Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods. – Peter A Levine
- Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. – Leslie Jamison
- Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention. – Gary Reilly
- Manuscript rejections might tempt you to quit writing or querying. Don’t. – TN Suarez
- Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher. – Nancy Holmes
- You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper – Teresa Nielsen Haydense
- There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love. – Himanshu Chhabra
- When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime. – Don Roff
- She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young – Owen Jones
- When she smiled at me, I felt unborn poems stirring within. – John Mark Green
- People are kinder to the unborn than they are to the women themselves, and soon I had my ticket. – Emily Schultz
- Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby. – AB Shepherd
- Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong – James Branch Cabell
- A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion . – Youns Hussein
- Each woman must realize that she is the final guardian of her unborn child. – Susan McCutcheon
- Problem is, though, sooner or later, physical pain, it’s… it’s manageable. See, real pain is emotional pain. That is the kind of pain that lasts. – Theo Raeken
- Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy. – Terry Pratchett
- If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain -” in time you will move through your pain. – Bryant McGill
- Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after. – S Kelley Harrell
- There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment – Harriet Jacobs
- For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound. – Raquel Cepeda
- Believing in or trusting fate is akin to gambling. – Steven Redhead
- Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity. – Charles Baudelaire
- Sometimes when you dig deep into the past, you shed uncontrollable tears. – Adeyemo Akin
- Generally -˜training’ went something akin to this:-œSo what you have to do is – Santino Hassell
- Believing in the inherent good of humankind is akin to having faith. It is to believe in something that may not be readily apparent. – Charles F Glassman
- Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat-”chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange. – Don Roff