No blurb can be a bullet-proof vest, but in my own experience it can put a square inch of Kevlar over a worried writer's heart.


Writers on Writing: More Collected Essays From the New York Times (Vol. II, 2003)


No blurb can be a bullet-proof vest, but in my own experience it can put a square inch of Kevlar over a worried writer's heart.

No blurb can be a bullet-proof vest, but in my own experience it can put a square inch of Kevlar over a worried writer's heart.

No blurb can be a bullet-proof vest, but in my own experience it can put a square inch of Kevlar over a worried writer's heart.

No blurb can be a bullet-proof vest, but in my own experience it can put a square inch of Kevlar over a worried writer's heart.