Agents Quote by Daniel Handler

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no…

— David Mitchell

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

— Joseph Joubert

“They say 90% of the promotion of a book comes through word of mouth. But you've somehow got to get your book into the…

— Claudia Osmond

“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.”

— Alain de Botton

Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid…

— Yann Martel

“I had devoted my whole life to books; to bookshops; to booksellers; to bookish people like Charles and Alan. And in doing so, I…

— Anthony Horowitz

The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it.

— Julia Glass

“stock into a word-of-mouth bestseller. And for the next three years they bought For Dummies books, millions of them.”

— John Wiley and Sons

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

— Brett Ratner

I am a big book collector. I love books.

— Andrew Zuckerman

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning…

— David Toop

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the number of Books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk…

— Alain De Botton