Dan Poynter Quotes

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

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#2. You see only the cat's paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

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#6. Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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#9. Your job is to keep making progress in claiming the life you want to live, one day at a time, one choice at a time.

Anonymous

#10. From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

Charles Spurgeon

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

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

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#13. The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

Harri Holkeri

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

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

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#16. To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

Erich Auerbach

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

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#18. Once I take you, you are mine. My woman. No other man can have you.

Gena Showalter

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

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

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