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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'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."
"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."
"I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped."
"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy."
"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 real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers."
"New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was still some exotic pet kept in the corner of the publishing world-throw some kibble at it, watch it dance on its little leash, oh quite cute, it definitely won't kill us in the night."
"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
"People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate."
"How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting."
"You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher."
"Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youthWhy?-Isn't it gorgeous?"
"It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K."
"His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?"
"If you don't have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family."
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