Patrick Nielsen Hayden Quotes
January 2, 1959
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This is stupid. I now have stupid all over me.
"Bad advice on cover letters", in Making Light (18 May 2004) 
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More Patrick Nielsen Hayden Quotes
So many people’s school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn’t care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don’t like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden— Oh No Lev Grossman No, in Making Light (30 August 2009)]
Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden— "Oh No Lev Grossman No", in Making Light (30 August 2009)
Book publishing was never a heaven “run by editors”, and it is by no means today a hell “run by accountants.” If our “sole interest” was “instant profit,” not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn’t be in book publishing at all.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden— A simple, mildly incredulous philippic, in Making Light, April 7, 2010.
