Agent Quote by Steven Pressfield

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And…

— Robert B. Parker

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish…

— Robert B. Parker

Your first attempt will be terrible… Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft… Whenever someone sends me…

— Pamela Druckerman

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

— Chinua Achebe

One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare…

— Marilyn Nelson

I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain…

— Gardner Dozois

I say that I've never been late with a manuscript, but I don't mean to be arrogant; it's that I simply want to get…

— Akira Toriyama

If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked…

— Ann M. Martin

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue…

— Natalie Goldberg

If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

— Stanley Unwin

You have to write the book that wants to be written,

— Madeleine L'Engle