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Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

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

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.

If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.

Though the publishing industry swears the market is oversaturated, books written by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and by embedded journalists keep on coming.

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.