Agents Quote by Raymond Chandler

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

— Raymond Chandler

After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that…

— Roger Zelazny

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.

— Bernard Cornwell

If you're going to pay an agent... you need to let him do his job.

— Greg Hardy

My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.

— Christian Cooke

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

— Lou Holtz

“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 had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just…

— Bebe Moore Campbell

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their…

— Kenny Loggins

My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no idea of…

— Mark McNairy

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

— Jena Malone

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

— Rod Serling