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"I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online."
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"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
"We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!"
"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
"All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers."
"Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000."
"Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells."
"Author's WarningIf you're buying this book as a gift for your grandma or a kid, you should be aware that it contains cusswords as well as tasteful depictions of cannibalism and people in their forties having sex. Don't blame me. I told you."
"The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised."
"The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity."
"The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
"It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me."
"I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from."
"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."
"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."
"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."
"It's ridiculous " a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid."
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