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

Before publishers’ blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
– Laurence J Peter

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  1. Before publishers’ blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. – Laurence J Peter
  2. Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. – Robertson Davies
  3. Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read. – Lani Brown
  4. There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves. – Mark S Hertzog
  5. What’s in a name?  The accumulation of reputations from all who’ve owned it before you. – Richelle E Goodrich
  6. …graced by some delicate, perceptive and fine-boned writing, is at the heart of the book, and Creel gets it all just right. – Publishers Weekly
  7. My problem is I say what I’m thinking before I think what I’m saying. – Laurence J Peter
  8. Everything that can be invented has been invented. – Charles H Duell
  9. It takes many years to build good reputations, but it takes a few minutes for their destruction. – Debasish Mridha
  10. Reputations seldom deliver on promises of happiness. – Huston Piner
  11. Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances. – FW Boreham
  12. Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. – Anne Frank
  13. Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. – Anne Frank
  14. A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. – Laurence J Peter
  15. An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. – Laurence J Peter
  16. You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. – Laurence J Peter
  17. You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. – Laurence J Peter
  18. Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. – Laurence J Peter
  19. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today. – Laurence J Peter
  20. The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance. – Laurence J Peter
  21. The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language. – Anurag Shourie
  22. I begin with writing the first sentence-”and trusting to Almighty God for the second. – Laurence Sterne
  23. Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. – Laurence Sterne
  24. Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it – John Lennon
  25. As writers, we should remind ourselves, and each other, that Jane Austen and JK Rowling got rejected by publishers, too. – Joanne Van Leerdam
  26. I have female friends that get mails from publishers that read ‘Hey. I heard you write about sex. This is a very popular topic now’. – Martijn Benders
  27. Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books. – Johnny Rich
  28. After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word coun – Stephen Colbert
  29. 101 Reasons why its great to be a woman:We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It’s clearly feminine intuition. – Summersdale Publishers
  30. Book publishers should change the communication from best sellers to the best impacts.What matters is the impact not the sold copies. – kamil Toume
  31. I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They’re like, ‘Who is this guy?’ And I’m like, ‘the end of your industry. – Ryan Lilly
  32. The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
  33. You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
  34. Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
  35. Shaving was invented to kill time before a date. – MASH Episode Guide Team
  36. Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  37. If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  38. Because I seeA rainstorm in JuneJust before the sunThe black of nightJust before the starsAnd, girl, I see your ghostJust before our dawn – Laura Miller
  39. Before the Plan, there is an Idea. Before the Idea, there is a Purpose. Before the Purpose, there is Your Spirit…aching to express Itself – Paresh Shah
  40. they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men… – Alina Radoi

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