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“As much as I hate to admit it, books have limitations. Over”

— Daisy Hernandez

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

“They knew the difference between thoroughness and overkill. It was like Jay Gatsby's library: the books were real, but the pages were uncut.”

— Haruki Murakami

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

— E. M. Forster

“For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins.”

— Violet Haberdasher

“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average person is…

— George Orwell

The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller,…

— Gabriel Zaid

“it's a misconception that book sellers look after books, they look after people.”

— Nina George

“When I meet someone who says they're not "much for books," I can guarantee that they haven't met the right book yet.”

— Kersten Hamilton

“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves”

— Russell Banks

A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about…

— Chris Pavone

“We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.”

— Sara Sheridan