“Maybe his big build isn't a linebacker's after all; maybe it's a librarian's.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Anyway, sorry,” Jad says to me quietly. “We’ll be fine,” I say. “People still like the smell of books.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Rosemary, why do you love books so much?" (...) "Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Hello, nice to meet you, I sell unreadable books to weird old people - want to get dinner?” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Or what if he's weeping to himself in a lonely apartment somewhere, where his family never visits him because Grandpa Penumbra is… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Penumbra [...] produces another e-reader - it's a Nook. Then another one, a Sony. Another one, marked KOBO. Really? Who has a Kobo?” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
For me, writing in public is actually super energizing and so much fun. Especially when writing can typically be really painful and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Some of them are working hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“He paused, then added, "Some of them are working very hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“When you read a book, the story definitely happens inside your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The space is appropriately shoe-boxy and all the shelves are there. I've set them up with a coordinate system, so my program… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“[...] We keep a record for every member, and for every customer who might yet become a member, in order to track… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Have they all bought Kindles? I have one, and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Lately, even the Waybacklist borrowers seem to be missing. Have they Been seduced by some other book club on the other side… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
He asked Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know I suppose I love them… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“...this is exactly the kind of store that makes you want to buy a book about a teenage wizard. This is the… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Turning the pages of this encoded codex, I realize that the books I love most are like open cities, with all sorts… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the Internet, you have the analytics, and you know that people are bailing every second. But various people… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Have they all bought Kindles? I have one, and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings down to, like, five thousand." "So we're… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing out of… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“My limbic system has grown accustomed to a certain (very low) level of human (female) contact. With her standing right next to me, her… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The shelves were packed close together, and it felt like I was standing at the border of a forest--not a friendly Californian forest, either,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“How was New York?' Ashley asks politely. I'm not sure how to respond. Something like: Well, the mustachioed master of the secret library is… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
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… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Neel cuts in: "Where'd you grow up?" "Palo Alto," she says. From there to Stanford to Google: for a girl obsessed with the outer… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
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