After Quote by Elliot Perlman

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

— Lincoln Child

You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.

— Nick Laird

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been…

— Mark Haddon

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

“I need a job and I want to be a paperback writer...”

— The Beatles

Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers,…

— Don Winslow

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.

— Jami Attenberg

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel…

— Caroline Leavitt

“Bookstores contain the residue of thousands of people who went in there to find an experience, a narrative that guided them to a new…

— Lauren Leto

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city…

— Lewis Buzbee

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

— Philip Roth