Paperback Quotes

35 quotes by 34 authors

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. — Berkeley Breathed
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York… — Terry Brooks
You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come… — Bob Hope
The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket. — Adrian McKinty
Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in… — Kevin Myers
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your… — Jim Rohn
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. — Don DeLillo
Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture,… — John Updike
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — John Thomas Sladek
The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive. — Walter Jon Williams
There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I… — Nicholson Baker
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money. — Buchi Emecheta
If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell. — Gordon Lightfoot
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. — Alfred Hitchcock
One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and 'Maximum Ride': There… — James Patterson
Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20… — Wilbur Smith
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story… — Christine Quinn
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. — Jane Hamilton
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in… — Anne Fadiman
[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your… — Neil Gaiman

Who Wrote These Paperback Quotes

34 authors contributed a total of 35 Paperback Quotes, led by these top contributors: