I do think that publishers will spend more time thinking about these things the next time out.
Sara Nelson
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The book industry has been deeply embarrassed and I think that her show pointed up the disconnect between publishing and the real world.
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Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.
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So many of the boys from town were in the Army.
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The doctors were so busy they couldn't take care of them all.
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They wouldn't let me in the room where she was cause they were afraid I'd get it, too.
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He shook his head and he didn't think the baby was going to live.
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Five million paperbacks is a lot, but I think they'll do fine with this. They'll go after the people who don't want to spend 2.95 on a hardcover, and there are a lot of people like that out there.
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To most people he's a novelist, and they don't hold him to the same journalistic standard as they would others. This is not as if Bob Woodward got caught manufacturing quotes from the president.
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Random House would have preferred not to have this lawsuit and spend money defending the book and Dan Brown, but they've certainly not been hurt by it.
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Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.
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Why bother with other people's worlds made of words? Was his philosophy.
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