"Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous of their autonomy, sensitive to the needs of writers and to the diverse interests of readers. If money were their primary goal, these people would probably have chosen other careers."

-- Jason Epstein

#Book Quotes #Jealous Quotes #Careers Quotes

“We do not want to merely â€œseeâ€ beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.”
“[Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the country and then to allow the products of other countries which are not surrounded by any similar legislation, which are free from any similar cost and expenditure freely to enter our country in competition with our own goods...If these foreign goods come in cheaper, one of two things must follow...either you will take lower wages or you will lose your work.”
“I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.”
“A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.”
“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
“Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.”
“Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won't get you anyone to throw it to.”
“It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.”

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