Patrick Nielsen Hayden quotes

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text. (Patrick Nielsen Hayden)
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site. View quote
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. View quote
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Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob. View quote
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So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse. View quote
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community. View quote
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This is stupid. I now have stupid all over me. View quote
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I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around. View quote
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There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts. View quote
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Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove. View quote
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Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors”, and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants.” If our "sole interest” was "instant profit,” not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn't be in book publishing at all. (Patrick Nielsen Hayden)