Agency Quote by Richard Curtis

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

— Anonymous

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

— Mark Helprin

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

— Elliot Perlman

. I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem as certain.…

— Michelle Tea

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

— Jennifer Weiner

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap.

— Frank McCourt

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to…

— Colson Whitehead

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

— Michael Korda

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein