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"The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."

"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor."

"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."

"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."

"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."

"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."

"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."
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"It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak."

"I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price."

"An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table."

"It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field."

"I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get."

"I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again."

"If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors."

"That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door."
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