Blurbs In Writing Quotes

#1. Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?

Guy Kawasaki

#2. Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?

David Kenyon Webster

#3. To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.

Emily Gould

#4. Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

Gabrielle Zevin

#5. Enjoy every moment with your lovemate and forget the soulmate.

Girdhar Joshi

#6. It has seemed to me that if I had the genius to found the jet propulsion field in the US, and found a multimillion dollar corporation and a world renowned research laboratory, then I should also be able to apply this genius in the magical field.

George Pendle

#7. It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning.

Jacqueline Carey

#8. If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Malcolm Bradbury

#9. Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

Laurence J. Peter

#10. Despite good intentions, the result is troubling: Feeding the Beast becomes the central focus.

Ed Catmull

#11. Where the hell is Ronan? Gansey asked, echoing the words that thousands of humans had uttered since mankind developed speech.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

Leslie Fiedler