Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate. — Horace Copy Share Image
The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller. — John Green Copy Share Image
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world. — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Despite the promise of four days of sun and overly sweet wine, Richard was sporting a sour puss. But then that was… — Charlie Hill Copy Share Image
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the number of Books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone… — Alain De Botton Copy Share Image
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Best-selling writers should go to bookstores to say thanks to the booksellers, to meet fans, sign autographs, sign books, talk, whatever. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.” — Leona Rostenberg Copy Share Image
There's definitely a role for online booksellers, but they can't host events, bring people together, and form a personal relationship in the… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere… — Horace Copy Share Image
Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s… — Ruby Wax Copy Share Image
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot has changed - ebooks are a much more valid format and bigger presses are taking less chances.… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
“Like everywhere else in the world, the book stores of Britain are struggling with being pushed out of the market by online… — Alana Muir Copy Share Image
I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“There may be little room for the display of this supreme qualification in the retail book business, but there is room for… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Booksellers in the gross are taken for little better than a pack of knaves and atheists.” — John Dunton Copy Share Image
Overall, I'd say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“I had devoted my whole life to books; to bookshops; to booksellers; to bookish people like Charles and Alan. And in doing… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
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