Quotes About Blurb

There is a place for hyperbole and I believe it's the back jacket of books

First of all, most poems aren't memorable; in fact, they make no impression at all. Sorry, but it's true. There are brave blurbs on the back cover ("writes with a lyrical luminosity that reconceptualizes experience with cognitive beauty") but you open up the goods and they're like condoms on the beach, evidence that somebody was here once and had an experience but not of great interest to the passerby.

4. If the book is a new one with a dust jacket, READ THE PUBLISHER'S BLURB.

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.