Book Quote by Michael Moorcock Download Open image “The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.” — Michael Moorcock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Book Trade Books Invented Literary Literary Prizes Merit Prize Prizes Prizes Stimulate Rewards Trade
Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium,… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.” — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as "that bastard Klaw.” — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sentiment. The universe sees no distinction between the… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool. — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I'd started doing fanzines from the age of nine. I'd been doing as many copies as you can get carbon paper into an upright… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“Time is a dream - or a nightmare - from which there is never any waking. We who travel in Time are dreamers who… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“IT IS THE colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering,… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said,… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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