Stephanie Meyer speaks: Get ready for heartbreak [authors.]

It's so very nice to find little tidbits like this. And if you're wanting the link from which the quote was taken, well, here it is: Twilight Stephenie Meyer

Now here's the quote:

How did you get it published?

Stephenie Meyer: "Sheer luck or fate or what have you. I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out 15 courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown. And it does not happen that way. If you [an author] expect that going in, get ready for heartbreak."

. . . and the truth shall set you free. I have preached it until I can preach it no more. The odds of hooking up with an agent that can do ANYTHING but waste your time are 1 in a 1,000,000,000,000. You may like those odds. I don't. And I don't have time to waste pretending I'll win this lottery before I've passed on. Also, if I'm not mistaken and didn't hear wrong. Ms. Myers had a few connections with her husband working and/or published by either her first publisher or one of the big "six." Don't hold me to that. Whether it's true or not, the facts remain as they are. Agents are trash collectors for large publishers who got tired of looking at MS's a looooooooooong time ago and decided to turn the job over to "agents." A dirty little game I'll not be playing.