Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
Nicholas Sparks

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.
David Eddings

And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.
William Kirby

And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.
Jenna Elfman

Another fine mess you've gotten me into.
Stan Laurel

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.
Robert Duvall

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.
Midge Ure

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
Barbara Castle

But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.
Stuart Symington

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.
Michael Hutchence

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.
Kenneth Baker

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
Frederick Soddy

Clean up your own mess.
Robert Fulghum

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
Buffy Sainte-Marie

Excuse the mess but we live here.
Roseanne Barr

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
John Cusack

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.
Julian Lennon

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
Shirley Manson

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
Kitty O'Neill Collins

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.
Evan Dando