A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they're like, "I want to support this person, it's good for my career," and so they get someone at the publishing house to do it, or they copy something from the press release. People write their own blurbs, absolutely, some huge percentage of the time.

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.