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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 breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
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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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"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
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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 a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy."
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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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"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher."
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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 was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped."
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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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"Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time."
Time
"But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia."
Kids
"Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."
People
"They took my mother's stomach out six months ago."
Family
"It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent."
Family
"And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students."
Goal
"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."
Description
"Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn't accounted for the fact that there might not be much of a resolution to the battle, and he hadn't imagined what it would feel like when the war just sort of ended, without anyone admitting defeat and congratulating him for his bravery."
History
"I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system. But I didn't picture a world where Circle membership was mandatory, where all government and all life was channeled through one network."
Technology
"The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse."
Mortality
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