Booksellers Quotes

Booksellers Quote of the day

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

"Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged".

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.