Books Quote by Antony Beevor

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me…

— Bill Bryson

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

— Ruskin Bond

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in…

— George Bernard Shaw

I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.

— Maeve Binchy

I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were…

— Jerry Pinto

The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, 'Sanctum.' My novels sell really well both there and in…

— Denise Mina

I always look for a bookshop wherever I go.

— Ruskin Bond

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

— Larry McMurtry

I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books.…

— Andy Griffiths

Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie…

— Sophie Kinsella

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I…

— Mary Ann Shaffer