Agents Quote by Jodi Picoult

'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing…

— John Burdett

Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for…

— Evelyn Waugh

Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before…

— Warren Leight

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor…

— Charles Frazier

I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around." The publishing…

— Natalie Goldberg

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very…

— William Monahan

If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked…

— Ann M. Martin

A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after…

— Jon Spaihts

I look at the plotline and let my co-author basically write the book; first draft. Then they give it to me, and I totally…

— Janet Evanovich

You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.

— Gordon Lightfoot

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside…

— Marc Guggenheim

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk…

— Norman Mailer