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There's no question that my son is better prepared for college than I was. He manages his time better, is more efficient and more directed, and spends less time in lines and more time doing exactly what he sets out to do.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Better College Directed Doing Efficient Exactly Exactly What He His Less Less Time Lines More No Question Out Prepared Question Sets Son Than Time

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When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Engine Expand Few Land Might Miss Opportunities Play Scan Search Search Engine Shakespeare Specific Symbols Thinking Topic Type Unexpected Ways Words You Your

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I think fondly of the rabbit holes I disappeared down when I researched papers for history and English because I couldn't find quite what I was looking for, or because I had to go through so much material to find examples for my thesis.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Because Disappeared Down English Examples Find Fondly Go Had History Holes Looking Material Much Papers Quite Rabbit Thesis Think Through I Think

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With a hardcover, you get two chances, a year apart, for the book to make an impact - often with a new cover featuring artfully crafted snippets of reviews, a new marketing campaign and maybe even a new publisher.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Apart Book Campaign Chances Cover Crafted Even Get Impact Make Marketing Maybe New Often Publisher Reviews Two Year You

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Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Become Book Books Both Clubs Consider Large Many Online Percentage Person Public Reading Reading Books Them

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Having the book-club army embrace you is a gift that keeps giving for years.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Army Embrace Gift Giving Having Keeps Years You

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For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Death Kiss Publishing Understood Years

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It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Being Books Bookstores Chain Closing Companies Editors General Hard Independents Laid Large Off Online Out Selling

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In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Autograph Available Book Collectors Copies Could First Get Hound Ideal Ideal World Later Libraries Low More Next Novel Print Printing Publisher Reviewers Say Simultaneously Six Weeks World Would

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Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.

~Christina Baker Kline

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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