Books Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

— George Gissing

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

— William Ralph Inge

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a…

— Lewis Carroll

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

— Anonymous

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

— Mark Helprin

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

— Anonymous

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more…

— Edward Abbey

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

— Wayne Dyer

“Books are too personal as objects to be displayed, in case a potential buyer is put off by your taste for Nietzsche or Marian…

— Linda Grant

“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that…

— Lee Siegel

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

— Jules Renard

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you…

— Anonymous