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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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"The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity."
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"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."
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"He left to do whatever editors do."
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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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"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."
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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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"Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world."
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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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"All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers."
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"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."
Death
"Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that."
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"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."
Death
"One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible."
Change
"We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons."
Action
"I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison."
Brother
"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal."
Revolution
"The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people."
People
"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."
Faith
"My father had very little formal education."
Education
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