Paperback For Quotes

#1. Hardison held up a gigantic bag that Parker could have used as a dress. "I picked up all sorts of things," he said with a smile. "I grabbed the entire run of Chew, and I savaged the first trade paperback for the Magic: The Gathering comic, signed by the writer, no less.

Matt Forbeck

#2. The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Walter Jon Williams

#3. If Jenny were a book, she would be a paperback just out of the box - no dog ears, no waterlogging, no creases in her spine.

Gabrielle Zevin

#4. So you like to read? Or listen, anyway?"
"I've found it helps me stay on the treadmill longer. But I always like to have a paperback on hand, too. I need to swing by the bookstore for another one, actually.

Cindi Madsen

#5. For a while they sat without talking. Anna got her daypack and dug out a paperback copy of Ivanhoe. It produced a book's inevitable effect. In cats it stimulated the urge to sit on the pages. In humans it stimulated conversation.

Nevada Barr

#6. Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

Terry Brooks

#7. The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

Adrian McKinty

#8. He was like nothing she'd ever known.
Marcii hoped she would come to know him, for he was all she could ever have asked for and more.

Ross Turner

#9. You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you're turning the pages.

Bob Hope

#10. If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor.

Dov Davidoff

#11. I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in some other semi-sexual way. It was so bad that I returned an advance to turn the Playboy article into a paperback, even though I had to borrow the money.

Gloria Steinem

#12. Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into her pocket for emergencies - you never knew when you might need a book to entertain and comfort and distract you in the day's empty places

Emily Croy Barker

#13. There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.

Nicholson Baker

#14. Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.

Kevin O'Leary

#15. I have a weak spot for late '60s-early '70s yippie paperbacks and protest manifestos. I find them at flea markets or online. One of my favorites is 'Right On,' a compendium of student protests made into this 95-cent paperback with the most amazing graphics.

Doug Aitken

#16. Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.

Paul Di Filippo

#17. Earlier in her career, she illustrated the first paperback covers for the entire Black Stallion series, as well as

Jean Slaughter Doty

#18. In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback.

Christina Baker Kline

#19. When you buy a jacket, it's important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

Daniel Pennac

#20. You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.

Neil Gaiman

#21. The price of an e-book is a lot less than the price that we're charging for a hardcover book. It's about the same as we charge for a paperback. And that means a different revenue stream.

Jonathan Galassi

#22. Fanfiction belongs online, books are published to be held.

Sky Diamond

#23. For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

Christina Baker Kline

#24. There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common.

Nancy Werlin