Quotes About Querying

At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress?

When I finished the first draft of Death Will Get You Sober, I joined Sisters in Crime and, later, Mystery Writers of America. After that, it was a matter of doing a lot of revision, sending out hundreds of queries over several years, and applying "talent, persistence, and luck"--sometimes known as "persistence, persistence, persistence."