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"For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published."
"The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them."
"What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents."
"If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law."
"A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain."
"My agent called me at 5:30am, and I thought the set of my movie had burned down, or Josh [Hutcherson] had died, or something…I didn’t realize! I was so tired!"
"Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action"
"We are going to lose the war on terror because all of our agents are tied up investigating the GOP."
"It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then."
"The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next."
"When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections."
"Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion rejections, until I was fortunate enough to be matched up with the Permanent Press."
