Agents Quote by Meg Rosoff

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

— Terri Windling

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

— Terri Windling

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of…

— Laura Miller

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

— Alexander Theroux

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of…

— Walter Jon Williams

I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

— Micah Perks

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the…

— John Gardner

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

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

— Anne Bernays

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a…

— Robert Barr

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on…

— Ursula K. Le Guin