Agents Quote by Manning Marable

My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.

— Colin Mochrie

“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

I have an agent, John Brockman, who is an agent to many academic authors like Dan Gilbert and Steven Pinker, and he's very good…

— Richard Thaler

Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and…

— Manning Marable

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt…

— Jon Stewart

In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was…

— Debra Hamel

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

— Rick Bragg

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

— Hampton Fancher

A writer always writes.

— Don Roff

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

— Jasper Fforde

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal