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.
Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
Curiouser and curiouser," he says. I smile at the reference. Carroll was totally a witch. The secrets of our world are written into that book.
Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.
Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.
I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.
I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.
I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and there's a lot to draw on there.
So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.
I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.
Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
