Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading, its that almost everything out there sucks. For so long, publishing has been run by a cartel of snobby pseudo-intellectual failed writers, and the resulting output has reflected not what the market wants, but what they think people are supposed to read.

It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes.