Unagented Quotes

#1. Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.

Tim Lebbon

#2. You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

Bob Kahn

#3. A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?

Jacqueline Carey

#4. It's no different from losing a loved one," he said. "You grieve, but then you have no choice but to go on living your life. You find a way to be happy again. It's not impossible. You just have to decide when you're ready to accept that they're gone.

Julianne MacLean

#5. He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when he grew angry at writers for writing them. He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.

Tobias Wolff

#6. Psychical confidence is the external expression of our internal state of confidence. In simpler terms, it is how confidence looks and sounds.

Sean Stephenson

#7. Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket..

John P. Wheeler III

#8. I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

Jack L. Chalker

#9. Never do anything that isn't play.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#10. I wasn't born an early bird.
It took three different alarms clocks blasting in my ear every morning to wake me up. And on special occasions when I'd sleep through the bird caws, beeping, and extreme drum solos, Stella would have the privilege of yanking me from my bed.

Joddie Zeng