Book Quote by Mary Ann Shaffer

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will…

— Richard Bach

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

— Antony Beevor

I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books.…

— Helene Hanff

I stay in contact with kids, and that is a lot of fun for me, not only to get their letters but to meet…

— Will Hobbs

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not…

— Patti Smith

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

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me…

— Bill Bryson

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at…

— Emma Donoghue

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

— William Peter Blatty

I always look for a bookshop wherever I go.

— Ruskin Bond

My first book was an open letter to my three daughters.

— Carol Burnett