Agents Quote by Leslie Jamison

For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock…

— F. Sionil Jose

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first…

— Karan Mahajan

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

— Haruki Murakami

Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people…

— Scott Spencer

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

— Anonymous

I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a translator, which…

— Deborah Smith

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're…

— David Small

It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not true at…

— Aravind Adiga

My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and…

— Sara Zarr

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author…

— Orhan Pamuk