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When you've biked only on quiet cul-de-sacs and college campuses, the idea of riding in the city, right up there alongside the cars, seems, frankly, pretty absurd.

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Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that they exist.

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The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read than we ever have in history.

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For me, writing in public is actually super energizing and so much fun. Especially when writing can typically be really painful and certainly hard, and often, you're staring at the page and thinking, like, 'Uh, is this any good? What am I doing?'

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For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months or years and figure it out. But now, you don't have to do that; you don't have to be alone in the room anymore.

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Books are anchored. You return to books. You don't return to a tweet.

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There's certainly satire written about techies, but it's so snarky and snide and doesn't treat him as a whole person. The people I worked with at Twitter - they're very analytical, but they're also deep and thoughtful - I feel like they deserved a charismatic spokesperson.

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You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

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I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.

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Selling books is hard to engineer.

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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