Books Quote by Alexander Gordon Smith

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

— Andrew Lang

Browse Amazon reviews, and you'll see a surprising number of readers who believe one novel can summarize a country, its culture, and its people.

— Celeste Ng

Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it comes to…

— Jane Green

You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.

— Andrew Long

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

— Terri Windling

I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to…

— John Gimlette

I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there.

— Alastair Reynolds

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

— Ahmet Zappa

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

— Ravi Subramanian

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

— Dick Bruna

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.

— Howard Frank Mosher

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I…

— Jonathan Coe