Agents Quote by Laura Miller

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

— Jasper Fforde

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

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers.…

— Augusten Burroughs

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

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

— Jackie Collins

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

— Meg Rosoff

“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

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

— Gillian Flynn

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

— T. S. Eliot

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

— Anne Bernays

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

— Jim Harrison