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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/so-many-people-s-school-experience-contains-at-least-one-instance-of/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

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- [Bryana Johnson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/free-verse/bryana-johnson/)

## More by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

> [“No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/no-one-goes-around-suggesting-that-everyone-should-become-their-own/)

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> [Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/tor-com-has-been-a-venue-for-original-sf-and-fantasy-since-2008-but/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/before-the-internet-before-bbses-and-fidonet-and-usenet-and/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/book-publishing-was-never-a-heaven-run-by-editors-and-it-is-by-no/)

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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?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/do-we-really-have-to-wander-around-apologizing-for-enjoying-plot-just/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/there-s-a-latter-day-notion-that-artsy-hippie-types-in-the-1960s/)

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> [I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/i-have-a-severe-google-reader-habit-i-think-people-will-use-blog/)

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> [The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/the-small-visual-inconvenience-of-e-books-is-made-up-for-with-find/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/back-in-2008-when-we-were-first-preparing-to-launch-tor-com-i-knew-i/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/i-was-ten-years-old-in-1969-and-while-we-lived-in-arizona-that-year-i/)

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> [Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/obviously-it-makes-a-difference-if-an-author-has-a-public-online/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/so-many-people-s-school-experience-contains-at-least-one-instance-of/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/personally-i-always-find-it-especially-piquant-when-cultural/)

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> [As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/as-a-senior-editor-at-tor-books-and-the-manager-of-our-science/)

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> [In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/in-my-own-life-i-ve-seen-myself-ramping-up-the-amount-of-text-i/)

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