Agent Quote by Karl Marlantes

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to…

— Colson Whitehead

I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap.

— Frank McCourt

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of…

— Anne Lamott

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

— Richard Curtis

I know important literary writers who can't get published.

— Frederick Busch

I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be…

— Sarah Dessen

. I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem as certain.…

— Michelle Tea

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.

— Scott Turow

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over…

— Anita Diament

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their…

— George Bernard Shaw