Dan Poynter Quotes

#1. Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

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#2. Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

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#3. Marriage is the only game where the trapped animal has to buy the license.

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#4. Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

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#5. If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

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#6. A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

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#7. Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

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#8. Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.

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#9. If only it were as easy to do the work of others
as it is to criticize their performance.

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#10. If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

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#11. Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.

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#12. If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

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#13. Fiction writers can't be trusted. They make things up.

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#14. Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

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