Editor: Most of the books of fiction we have published were submitted by ... ...

Editor: Most of the books of fiction we have published were submitted by literary agents for writers they represented; the rest were received directly from fiction writers from whom we requested submissions. No nonfiction manuscript has been given serious attention, let alone been published, unless it was from a renowned figure or we had requested the manuscript after careful review of the writer’s book proposal.

Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the editor’s statements?


(A) Most unrequested manuscripts that the publishing house receives are not given serious attention.
(B) ...
(C) ...
(D) ...
(E) ...

*This question is included in PT70 (Oct 2013): Logical Reasoning B