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There's A Time And Place For The Kindle, And I Own One Now And Have Books On It That I Don't Otherwise Have. But I Don't Find That My Hand Reaches Out For It The Way It Does For A Trade Paperback, Or (in The Middle Of The Night) For The Ipod Touch.

It's True That I Don't Rearrange That Much In The Fiction, But I Feel If You Change Even One Name Or The Order Of One Event Then You Have To Call It Fiction Or You Get All The Credits Of Non-fiction Without Paying The Price.

Wikipedia Flourished Partly Because It Was A Shrine To Altruism.

Most Writers Are Secretly Worried That They're Not Really Writers. That It's All Been Happenstance, Something Came Together Randomly, The Letters Came Together, And They Won't Coalesce Ever Again.

Printed Books Usually Outlive Bookstores And The Publishers Who Brought Them Out. They Sit Around, Demanding Nothing, For Decades. That's One Of Their Nicest Qualities - Their Brute Persistence.