Agents Quote by Stephenie Meyer

Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion…

— Liza Campbell

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

— Frank McCourt

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of…

— Anne Lamott

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all…

— Jerry Spinelli

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it…

— Lisa Alther

I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be…

— Sarah Dessen

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest…

— Daniel Handler

I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks good on…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and…

— Erica Jong

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

— Wilbur Smith

I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me when I…

— Adam Silvera

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