Dan Poynter Quotes
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A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.
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Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.
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Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.
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If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?
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Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.
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If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.
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If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
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Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.
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Run a test. Give a 5-year-old a printed book and an iPad and see what happens. That 5-year-old is going to go right for the iPad. They're not intimidated by it. They know what to do with it. They'll start searching around. And in a children's e-book, you can have links to kid-safe encyclopedia. So if they click on the lion, it takes them to Africa and tells them all about lions. So now, the e-book is educational.
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Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.