Book Sellers Quotes

#1. Profitable bookstores sell books. Unprofitable book sellers store books.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#2. All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

Ray Bradbury

#3. it's a misconception that book sellers look after books, they look after people.

Nina George

#4. A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Oswald Chambers

#5. The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!

Andy Rooney

#6. Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.

Amanda Hocking

#7. Writing a book is exactly like love. You don't hold back. You give it everything you have. If it doesn't work out, you're heartbroken, but you move forward and start again anyway. You have to.
You don't hold some of yourself in reserve. It's all or nothing. There are no guarantees.

Heather Sellers

#8. I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?

Amish Tripathi

#9. It's time to give the gavel back to God, we were never meant to be judges.

Evinda Lepins

#10. This book is written in
a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.

Phindiwe Nkosi

#11. I'm contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#12. I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#13. It's hard letting go of the past, when there are no firm handholds in the future.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#14. More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

Harold Bloom

#15. The beginning of evil is heedlessness.

Poemen

#16. There are essentially two things that will make you wise
the books you read and the people you meet.

Jack Canfield

#17. How can you expect four women to dine together alone every day, and not quarrel?

Wilkie Collins

#18. I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them.

Robbie Robertson

#19. Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

V.S. Naipaul

#20. One cannot judge by book being best seller. We all know that. Many best sellers are terrible trash.

Philip K. Dick

#21. None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.

James Purdy

#22. I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.

Ben Schott

#23. The question is, 'how bad at sports were you as a kid?' I grew up near where they film Jersey Shore. If you weren't tan, muscular, and book-averse, you were a dork and a nerd and a geek and stuff. I remember being into Gary Larsen, Stephen Wright, Peter Sellers ...

Demetri Martin

#24. I'd set out to write a book about how we learn to trust our own experience in the face of confusion, doubt, and anxiety. What I ended up with is the story of how we love each other in spite of immense limitations

Heather Sellers

#25. Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says "A Million Copies Sold," did you ever wonder who bought them?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#26. I don't consider myself a fashion designer.

Manolo Blahnik

#27. I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.

Richard Flanagan

#28. An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.

Morarji Desai

#29. I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.

Steven Pinker

#30. Marvin bongo drums and a piano and some grass

Charles Bukowski

#31. No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.

Menachem Begin

#32. The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were best sellers and they specifically told the story of history from the point of view of women.

Colin Callender

#33. I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.

Marta Kauffman

#34. Yeah, I'm a physical kind of guy. I've always liked being physical. It takes a stuntman to really say, 'Look, we don't want you to do this. No, no, I'm serious, you're not going to do this' to get me not to do my stuff.

Dominic Purcell