Book Quote by Jodi Picoult

Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.

— Ingrid Weir

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

— Ahmet Zappa

Buy a cover for a better book

— Me

People do judge books by their covers, and the magazine editors deciding whether to include your book on their pages are working in a…

— Camille Perri

I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what…

— Nancy Werlin

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a…

— Gary Shteyngart

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Like everywhere else in the world, the book stores of Britain are struggling with being pushed out of the market by online booksellers. The…

— Alana Muir

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan…

— Bernard Cornwell

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want…

— Jeffery Deaver

“It is, incidentally, a favour that e-books have done for the Good Bookshop: they have made books beautiful again. A few years ago, book…

— Mark Forsyth

I've always tried to keep my cover prices on the low side. I'm more interested in getting people to read the books we publish…

— Kevin Sampsell