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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!"

"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."

"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."

"He left to do whatever editors do."

"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."

"Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world."

"All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers."

"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher."

"The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics."
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"I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison."

"Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap."

"The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people."

"The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were."

"There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake."

"It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country."

"I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it."
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