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"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
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"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
"The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity."
"Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy."
"The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised."
"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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"Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong."
"But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience."
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
"The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world."
"God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture."
"The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young would-be scientist."
"The form that an animal's subjective experience takes will be a property of the internal computer model. That model will be designed, in evolution, for its suitability for useful internal representation, irrespective of the physical stimuli that come to it from outside. Bats and we need the same kind of internal model for representing the position of objects in three-dimensional space. The fact that bats construct their internal model with the aid of echoes, while we construct ours with the aid of light, is irrelevant."
"To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham."
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