Bags Quote by James Frey

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

— Mark Crispin Miller

“Perhaps if by chance I was seen arranging the shop window in my underpants, some lady in need of strong literary emotions would be…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. ”

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“I collect new books the way my girlfriends buy designer handbags.”

— Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

— William Gibson

Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and…

— Charlotte Mendelson

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps…

— Graham Greene

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper.…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

— Ellen Goodman

“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. Most likely you will carry it…

— The Pocket University - Volume XXIII

“It holds my essential stuff, including a book—for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so rarely fit,…

— Michael Chabon