Top 32 Literary Agent Quotes
#1. A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.
John Hodgman
#2. Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.
Amish Tripathi
#3. My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
Daniel Radcliffe
#4. The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd written 150 pages when I'd only written 20. And I think it was when the agent e-mailed me back right the very next day after sending him the 20 pages and asking to see the other 130.
Helen Oyeyemi
#5. My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.
Daniel Handler
#6. I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.
Mary Sage Nguyen
#7. Literary Agent: "I meant manuscript wise."
Tina: "Ohh. Um, yes. I've brought a few with me, just some rough drafts. (shuffle, shuffle) You might say something of an experiment.
Christina Engela
#8. I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.
Irving Paul Lazar
#9. As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who strives and not just cooks and scrubs for her children, but who also acts as her daughter's literary agent.
Richard Corliss
#10. Y'know, if anyone happens to know the name of a good literary agent that will actually return phone calls...
Rob Steele
#11. Probably because I really love this bookmaking and storytelling world, I'd been thinking for years about the possibility of becoming a literary agent.
Rebecca Stead
#12. Even the worst job has its benefits and so does being a professional literary agent, and - I know I said this at the time but I still believe it - the worst job is the one that you know is wrong for you, but you still do it. You're afraid to quit.
John Hodgman
#13. My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.
Daniel Radcliffe
#14. Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra
#15. Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.
P.G. Wodehouse
#16. Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.
Jacqueline Carey
#18. One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
Bertrand Russell
#19. The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.
Sara Paretsky
#20. It is our nature to be strong and independent. Yet, there is no room for the ego in suffering. This stripping of my ego opens the doors to authentic relating to others. As I am drawn closer to others, I am experiencing God in the here and now.
Timothy J. Keller
#21. There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.
Michael Sandel
#22. Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
Karl Liebknecht
#23. No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#24. I am by profession an agent and no writer, so you will have to pardon any lack of literary flourish.
Julian Darius
#25. Today, where you come from seems less and less important, as globalization is the new order. I prefer the old world.
Ronnie Apteker
#26. There are many elder sons and elder daughters who are lost while still at home.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#27. President Bush delivered his first State of the Union address, riding high on an 82-percent approval rating, and with Attorney General John Ashcroft dispatching agents to interview the other 18 percent.
Jon Stewart
#28. By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I washed dishes for a living. I had no high-school diploma, I had no agent, and my literary successes were non-existent ... but it was the only thing I ever wanted to do, so I did feel trapped.
Patrick DeWitt
#29. In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits.
Glen Duncan
#30. Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
Alex Berenson
#31. When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#32. I was the only one at stage school who wasn't white.
Leona Lewis
