You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.
We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.
Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.
Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.