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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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"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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"The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised."
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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
"We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones."
Mortality
"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
"If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life. Its something we should live to the full, to the end of our days. Where if you're religious and you believe in another life somehow, that means you don't live this life to the full because you think you're going to get another one. That's an awfully negative way to live a life. Being a atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily and fully."
Philosophy
"Evolution never looks to the future."
Nature
"A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to mix the two together. According to the above, they will explode in my face. Here goes...Well... I'm still here! I poured the hydrogen peroxide into the hydroquinone, and absolutely nothing happened. It didn't event get warm!"
Science
"I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history."
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