Ian Christe Quotes:

That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.

Topics: Powerful, Roots, Fans

It's not even so much about publicity, it's more just letting people know that things are available, because books aren't a flash in the pan thing. It's more like: "It took 20 years for this book to be done and now it'll be on a shelf for 20 years until the right person finds it."

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Topics: Book, Years, People

The dream book is always the next book.

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Topics: Dream, Book, Next

Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good community around me that knew how to do the specialized stuff.

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Topics: New York, Editors, People, Top Notch

The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led to a lot of trying to move freight with a pallet jack - literally trying to shove a one-ton cube of books into a tiny space.

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Topics: Moving, Book, Space, Pallets

The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!

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Topics: Moving, Book, Logistics

It's important to over-deliver on the quality of the books as far as depth and content. It's not worth it to cut out 50 pages just because it would be a little bit cheaper.

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Topics: Book, Cutting, Quality, Not Worth It

I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.

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Topics: Song, Emotional, Perfect

The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.

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Topics: Kids, Looks, Defining

I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.

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Topics: Dream, Book, Opposites