{"quotes":[{"text":"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... And if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["agents","writing"],"id":5387,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move by the tsar or the wrong move by the general changes everything. Most of us, deep down, are probably Hollywood people. We like to invent “what if” scenarios--what if x had never happened, what if y had happened instead?--because we like to believe that individual decisions make a difference: that, if not for x, or if only there had been y, history might have plunged forever down a completely different path. Since we are agents, we have an interest in the efficacy of agency.","author":"Louis Menand","tags":["agents","decisions","fate","history","individuals","predestination","tolstoy"],"id":30734,"author_id":"Louis+Menand"},{"text":"Raven scowled at her. 'Fine. But if I accidentally shoot you because my aim is shaky, because I'm too tense, because I wasn't given the chance to relax before going into a potentially very dangerous situation, you'll be happy blaming only yourself?","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","agents","blame","danger","shooting","thriller"],"id":56065,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"Hell yeah! Twitter was proof that leaderless self-organizing systems could be true agents of change.","author":"Biz Stone","tags":["agents","change","leadership","revolution","self-organization","technology","twitter"],"id":138220,"author_id":"Biz+Stone"},{"text":"An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["agents","business","contracts","publishers","publishing"],"id":238141,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","agents","death","horror","shock","silence","thriller"],"id":239155,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"God gave us his word of salvation, for us to become the agents of His principles and the doers of His will, His judgment on earth.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["agents","god","judgement","principles","salvation","will","word"],"id":349981,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Little by little the agents have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything, they just stand and take their cut.","author":"Mœbius","tags":["agents","bourgeois","bourgeoisie","management"],"id":375593,"author_id":"M%C5%93bius"},{"text":"Are you a house-wife, Mrs Silvers?' he asked. 'What would you recommend for getting burger relish out of a white shirt?'The seething woman cranked the venom-level of her gaze up to eleven, and Raven smiled pleasantly back.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","agents","humour","sarcasm","seething","thriller"],"id":426225,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["agents","literary-agent","publishers","richelle","richelle-goodrich","writing"],"id":437336,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}