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A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
Nicholas Sparks

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
Jackie Collins

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
Walter Wager

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
Tanith Lee

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
Harold Robbins

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.
Susie Bright

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?
Brian Ferneyhough

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
Danielle Steel

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
Marilyn Hacker

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