Literary Agents Quotes

• La mejor fuente para encontrar un agente se llama Literary Agents of North America. Es una lista completa de agentes, no sólo por nombre y dirección, sino por tipo de libro que representan y por cuáles son sus criterios de presentación.

  Sara Paretsky

  Libro, Nombres, América

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Agents

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

  Frank Sinatra

  Hell Hath No Fury, Agents, No Revenge

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• In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily, that author thanked his agent. I looked up the agent on the web and found out that he not only represented authors writing books similar to mine, but I knew some of his clients! So, I sent in the manuscript, and they decided to represent it.

  Debra Hamel

  Book, Writing, Agents

  Fuente: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com

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• 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

  Jobs, Believe, Doe

  "John Hodgman, residente en Maine, se enfrenta de nuevo a nuestras 11 preguntas". Entrevista con Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. 3 de septiembre de 2015.

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• Mi madre y mi padre fueron actores cuando eran más jóvenes y tuvieron una experiencia horrible. Mi padre se hizo agente literario y mi madre directora de casting.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Mom, Dad, Actors

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• Nunca publicaría unas memorias. Hace años que diferentes editoriales y agentes literarios me piden que publique unas memorias. Creo que no sería bueno para mí porque lo único de lo que me gustaría hablar es de música y prefiero dedicarme a ella.

  Natalie Merchant

  Pensar, Años, Jugar

  "Paradise Is Here: An Interview With Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• If I focused hard on getting a literary agent, and doing things like that, instead of designing my blog's header, I would have more money, I think. I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view [anything] as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.

  Tao Lin

  Thinking, Views, Design

  "Tao Lin: Me ven troleando". Entrevista con Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. 4 de febrero de 2011.

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• Los sindicatos toman la tira, la venden a los periódicos y se reparten los ingresos con los dibujantes. Los sindicatos son esencialmente agentes. Ahora bien, ¿se imaginan a un novelista cediendo a su agente literario la propiedad de sus personajes y todos los derechos de reimpresión, televisión y cine antes de que el agente lleve el manuscrito a una editorial? Obviamente, un autor tendría que ser un loco de atar para aceptar semejante trato, pero prácticamente todos los dibujantes hacen exactamente eso cuando un sindicato exige la propiedad antes de aceptar vender la tira a los periódicos.

  Bill Watterson

  Película, Personaje, Derechos

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• A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list.

  Brian Hodge

  Real, Book, Home

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• I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

  Irving Paul Lazar

  Actors, Agents

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• I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Editors, Agents, Letters

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• 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

  Knitting, Smoking, Agents

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• 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

  Dad, Eye, Scripts

  Interview with Dave Calhoun, www.timeout.com.

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