"Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books."

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Source : Dan Poynter (2000). “Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts Into Books”, Para Pub

Dan Poynter

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“I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.”
“As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.”
“When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.”
“It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.”
“We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn't make climate change an "economic issue."”
“In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
“The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.”
“I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.”

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