Dan Poynter Quotes
If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?
Quotes to Explore
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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It was fun to see a big crowd and have the fans excited about the season. I think it got everyone wound up for the upcoming season
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
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Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.
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Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.
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You don't take a picture, you make a picture.
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Energy begets energy.
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Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been a burden and even that I didnt sing it for a while. Thats completely false. I am very proud of American Pie and the many satellites that grow from it and revolve around it. For many years I carried my songs around and now they carry me around. I have always sung American Pie for my audience and would never think of disappointing them since it is they who have given me a wonderful life and untold affection for almost 30 years.
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What the founders of modern science ... had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, and a new concept of science - and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all.
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The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
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Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit.
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Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.
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If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?
