Books Quote by Val McDermid

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

— Demetri Martin

“A remarkable number of the memoirs of booksellers are basically anecdote delivery devices.”

— Travis McDade

“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.”

— Alain de Botton

“The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I…

— George Orwell

“The many mysteries boil down to three. There is the kind that can be solved: who planted the bomb? Will the travellers reach their…

— James Meek

“share to learn like a mystery book”

— Jeremy Lam

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their…

— Laurel Lea

The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given…

— Walter Scott

“There's something kind of heroic about being a bookseller.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“I had devoted my whole life to books; to bookshops; to booksellers; to bookish people like Charles and Alan. And in doing so, I…

— Anthony Horowitz

I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in…

— Isabel Allende