Letters Quote by Nicholas Sparks

If you want to be traditionally published, then you most likely want to get a literary agent. To sign with an agent, you need…

— Tomi Adeyemi

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal…

— Dean Koontz

Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it…

— Brad Thor

If you're on a contract at 'The New Yorker,' the contract specifies the number of words you will publish in the magazine per year.…

— Lawrence Wright

“She told the woman to go to one of the online agent sites that list agents who are looking for new clients, and then…

— Ann Patchett

I used to get, like, 2,000 letters a week at one point.

— Andrew Keegan

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections…

— Stephenie Meyer

“Before it occurred to me that I might actually need an agent, I had generated well over three million dollars' worth of income, a…

— Stephen King

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for…

— Stephen King

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

— Mary Ann Mobley

There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and…

— Dan DeCarlo

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

— A. N. Wilson