Paperback Novel Quotes

#1. If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

Gordon Lightfoot

#2. Quality Never dies.

Abdullah Khan

#3. A dark provider skimmed lazily along above them. As it swept over their heads, it cast forth food for them.

Robin Hobb

#4. 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

#5. A fan sent me a pair of fluffy winter socks, and I was like, 'Oh, that's cool. I'll wear them to bed. It's cold; it's winter.' But they were worn. They were black underneath, and they stunk, and I hate feet. She was like, 'I'm giving you my favorite pair.'

Ella Henderson

#6. 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

#7. We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.

Barry Goldwater

#8. Some of you ... have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow.

Kevin Myers

#9. Angrily, she asks, "So you don't care who dies around you?"
She's not talking to me, but I answer the questions anyway. "I don't really care if I die. At least I would be doing something different."
-Varian

Bridget Blackwood

#10. 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

#11. Perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#12. David could hear the voices that said, then why hadn't he run for a political seat to work for change? His answer to them would be that he was too much in love with his woman and his children, and the people around him to leave his land to take up a political office;

Toni Mariani

#13. Words cannot express love. Only thoughts of love born in silence can do that.

Debasish Mridha