Quotes to Write By #3

From the Hornfischer Literary Management:

"When you query agents and send out proposals, present yourself as someone who's in command of his material and comfortable in his own skin. Too many writers have a palpable sense of anxiety and insecurity. Take a deep breath and realize that--if you're good--someone in the publishing world will want you."

(As quoted from the 2011 Guide to Literary Agents, Ed. Chuck Sambuchino, 2010, p.171)


What's funny and ironic is that actually, this literary agency is not interested in the work I have produced for my first manuscript. But that still makes me feel just a little bit better, reading that. Because this process makes me feel a little nauseous, and while the reality is that it is a tough career of much rejection and a lot of luck, believing in my vocation, even through impersonal quotes, can always bring me back down to Earth.