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

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Source : Dan Poynter (2003). “The self-publishing manual: how to write, print, and sell your own book”, Para Publishing

Dan Poynter

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“Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.”

Source : Samuel Richardson (2015). “Clarissa Harlowe V: Samuel Richardson Collections”, p.151, 谷月社
“The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.”
“I probably have the worst wardrobe. It's the most ill-fitting with the worst patterns and colors and the most nipple rubbage. There's bad chafing, and it's always tight in all the wrong places. What's sad is that I'm kinda getting used to it.”
“It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.”
“A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.”

Source : "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.
“The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.”
“I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.”

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