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"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
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"We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!"
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"The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity."
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"Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells."
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"The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are."
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"I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets."
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"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
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"I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped."
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"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
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"McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object."
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"I should have my own publishing companies."
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"It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive of such a superlative being, though he would deny its existence in the real world. But, goes the argument, a being that doesn't exist in the real world is, by that very fact, less than perfect. Therefore we have a contradiction and, hey presto, God exists!"
Religion
"Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."
Winning
"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."
Chance
"The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality."
Science
"We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones."
Mortality
"What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them."
Knowledge
"We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage."
Culture
"Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun."
Doubt
"There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways."
Wonder
"We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes."
Society
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