Cory Doctorow Quotes


Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks. - Cory Doctorow


Previously, such jottings might have been kept in the author's notebook but something amazing happens when you post them online. Readers help you connect them, flesh them out and grow them into fully-fledged books or blooks. - Cory Doctorow


Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do. - Cory Doctorow


My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart. - Cory Doctorow


It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. - Cory Doctorow


It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. - Cory Doctorow


It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy. - Cory Doctorow


It does the thing that all great non-fiction needs to do makes a subject interesting because of how it's covered, not because of the subject itself. I don't care about French food but I loved this book. - Cory Doctorow


Is it any different to loaning a book to someone? There was a book in the US ( Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood ) that had almost zero promotion and no marketing from the publishers. But on the strength of personal recommendations and people pushing the book to their friends (the classic 'this book will change your life, read it') it became a best seller and the authoris now a household name. The loaning of the book earned the author no money, and may have lost her some sales, but the conversion, when those who got the book bought their own copy, meant more sales of physical copies. - Cory Doctorow


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