Agents Quote by Jasper Fforde

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for…

— Tom Peters

Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers want to…

— Carson Ellis

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

— Anthony Burgess

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone…

— Lisa Jewell

Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard…

— Sue Grafton

“Agents don’t sell books, good writing does. Plotting and characterization are what interest an editor. Agents negotiate contracts, but they don’t sell books.”

— Debbie Macomber

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents,…

— Doris Lessing

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just…

— James Frey

Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent,…

— Jim Bouton

The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you…

— Bill Watterson