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Recently I'd been intrigued to read about a self-publishing site, Lulu.com. According to the Web site, I could print a proper hardback book, complete with dust jacket, for less than thirty dollars.

discouraging as he'd been, hadn't actually hit on my real worry about my project: Was it supremely self-centered to spend so much effort on my own happiness?

suppose. I don't care what anyone's dietary preferences are but I didn't like the feeling I was being preached to.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

Why, like all men, she replied. Then added, repulsing him with a languid movement - You are all evil!

Surely it could not have been a dove God had chosen to speak through, since doves could not talk.

Thy chastity is but a more subtle form of corruption, and thy contempt of this world is but the impotence of thy hatred against it.

But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself.

a demand for money being, of all the winds that blow upon love, the coldest and most destructive.

I understand, said the notary; a man of science can't be worried with the practical details of life.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

El autor debe estar en su libro como Dios en su universo, presente en todas partes, pero siempre invisible.

The more flowery a person's speech … the more suspect the feelings, or lack of feelings, it concealed.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

Colonies (nos). S'attrister quand on en parle.

The reminiscences, far too numerous, on which he dwelt produced a disheartening effect on him; he went no further with the work, and his mental vacuity redoubled.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study ]

And this is what Lord Byron said, who, nevertheless, loved women: 'They should be well fed and well dressed, but not allowed to mingle with society. They should also be taught religion, but they should ignore poetry and politics, only being allowed to read religious works or cook-books.

the pretensions of anarchism in its individualist variants have always been laughable

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

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Smart writers understand that writing is also a business. Really smart writers see themselves also as entrepreneurs. Barry Eisler

electronic realities of publishing. O'Reilly Media is one example. Let's take a look at its approach to publishing: