"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."

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"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."

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"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Selling, Nothing

"Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries."

Terry Southern, American Writer

Selling, Countries, Nations, World

"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."

George Harrison, British Musician

Selling,

"It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked."

Carolyn McCarthy, American Politician

Selling, Children, Commonsense, Country

"All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers."

John Cale, Welsh Musician

Selling, Audiences, Careers, Result

"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."

River Phoenix, American Actor

Selling,

"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well."

Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historian

Selling,

"Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates."

John Wozniak, American Musician

Selling, College, School, Smoking

"I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it."

Robert Sheckley, American Author

Selling, Right, Want

"Yeah, I just have a little part in it. In the house that Brian Cox barbecued himself appears in The Ring 2; I am the real estate agent that is selling the house, and Naomi Watts comes to check out the house as part of her investigation."

Gary Dole, American Politician

Selling, Investigation

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"The hard fact is that not everyone does get published."

Fact,

"Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book."

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"If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!"

Life,

"In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings."

Science,

"It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end."

Being, End, Obvious

"One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments."

Science, Thought, Fiction

"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."

Selling,

"If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur."

Science, Computer, Effect, Study

"Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile."

Advice, Beginning, Writers

"All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected."

Living,