Dan Poynter Quotes
If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?Dan Poynter
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
Barbara Amiel -
I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
Kate Moss -
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl Marx -
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
Rachel Carson -
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
Darnell Dockett -
Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
Pythagoras
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
William Wordsworth -
What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
Wim Wenders -
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
Joe Satriani Chickenfoot -
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Boy George Culture Club -
But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.
Scott Caan -
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.
Erica Jong
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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.
Roy Blount, Jr. -
Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.
Catherine Deneuve -
You don't take a picture, you make a picture.
Ansel Adams -
Energy begets energy.
Dolly Parton -
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
Karl Marx -
A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
Joseph de Maistre -
People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
Walt Handelsman -
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.
Kingsley Amis -
If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?
Dan Poynter