Book Quote by Mary Ann Shaffer

It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a…

— Harper Lee

I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in…

— Augusten Burroughs

It is always sort of unnerving to hear from people who've read my books. I'm not reading any of the reviews and most of…

— Hanya Yanagihara

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'd say the purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because I think when you've read the book you're…

— Zack Snyder

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount…

— Jesse James Garrett

I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were…

— Jerry Pinto

It gives me a huge buzz when people say they've enjoyed my books, because this grew out of a hobby, and it's an absolute…

— Alison Weir

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just…

— James Frey

Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all that familiar...although…

— Marina Warner

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

[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and…

— Stephen Fry