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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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"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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"I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped."
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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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"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
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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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"Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine."
Writing
"I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics."
Crime
"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."
Publishing
"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
Publishing
"It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon."
Enthusiasm
"Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company."
Attention
"However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers."
Books
"Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence."
Books
"Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team."
Money
"I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling."
Reading
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