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Selling books is hard to engineer.
A gift shouldn't feel like homework.
I am comfortable combining the old and the new.
If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.
I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.
In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.
On the Twitter media team, we believe that tweets drive TV tune-in.
All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.
Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.
Books are anchored. You return to books. You don't return to a tweet.
It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.
Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.
He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.
I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating.
'Minecraft' is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge.
Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.
My parents live in northern Michigan, and every year, in the summer, we visit them for a few weeks.
Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.
A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.
I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in!
Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.
Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.
The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.
(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!
I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.
When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?
You can really find yourself at sea when you're becoming an adult and suddenly have to feed yourself for the first time.
I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.
I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected
When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.
America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get and capture people's attention.
It's not like 'Print versus Digital - only one will survive.' We live in a hybrid world now, and I think the near-term future is also hybrid.
Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that they exist.
You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a little off the beaten track.
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.
I think that some of the archetypes and works of science fiction that have pierced pop culture and stayed there are the darker ones and the dystopias.
This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then go beyond it and change it and mutate it.
The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read than we ever have in history.
I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I’d probably just google it.
Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.
If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage.
Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading!
I think, personally - I don't know if other readers would agree - but reading 'Penumbra,' I detect an Internet writer or a writer who came up on the Internet.
...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.
When you've biked only on quiet cul-de-sacs and college campuses, the idea of riding in the city, right up there alongside the cars, seems, frankly, pretty absurd.
When you're making a print book in 2012, I actually think the onus is on you - and on your publisher - to make something that's worth buying in its physical edition.
We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home shelf, my homeland, my home planet, my essential genre.
Whether it's 'Fish' or 'Annabel Scheme' or 'The Truth About the East Wind,' I often find myself crafting custom containers to hold the kind of content I want to create.