The Booksellers Quotes

#1. For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

Christopher Smart

#2. My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

F. Paul Wilson

#3. There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach your children to bring them in for themselves. Take your text from the brooks, not from the booksellers.

Louis Agassiz

#4. I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it's usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.

Ruby Wax

#5. These days, it seems like you can't throw a fish in a bookstore without hitting a high-stakes love triangle
not that I recommend the throwing of fish in bookstores, mind you, as it certainly annoys the booksellers, not to mention the fish ...

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#6. The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

Samuel Johnson

#7. The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.

Edgar Allan Poe

#8. Despite the promise of four days of sun and overly sweet wine, Richard was sporting a sour puss. But then that was to be expected - he sold books for a living, after all.

Charlie Hill

#9. Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

Pat Brown

#10. The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.

Ray Bradbury

#11. Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.

Seth Godin

#12. There's definitely a role for online booksellers, but they can't host events, bring people together, and form a personal relationship in the way a bricks-and-mortar store and its staff can.

Graeme Simsion

#13. Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

Victor LaValle

#14. To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.

Leona Rostenberg

#15. I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

Patrick DeWitt

#16. I love meeting readers and booksellers and am beyond overwhelmed and gratified at the reception. Each day feels like an adventure.

John Corey Whaley

#17. A remarkable number of the memoirs of booksellers are basically anecdote delivery devices.

Travis McDade

#18. I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

Karl Marlantes

#19. The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it.

Julia Glass

#20. There is a lot of talk about the betrayal of Judas, and people are not aware that it is happening again. Christ is being sold again, not to the leaders of the Sanhedrin for thirty pieces of silver but to editors and booksellers for millions of dollars ...

Raniero Cantalamessa

#21. The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

James Boswell

#22. In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

Sara Paretsky

#23. 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

#24. He got Strahan to print fifty advertisements to be run in 'country papers', along with 250 showcards for booksellers' windows. Although none of this was expensive, the final account that Strahan presented was for more than £800, a sum that was not fully paid off until almost four years later. The

Henry Hitchings

#25. All my scripts have artistic backgrounds
ballet, concert hall, opera
and all the suspects and corpses are cultured, maybe I'll do one about the rare book business in your honor, do you want to be the murderer or the corpse?

Helene Hanff

#26. I wish there could be an international peace
conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own
conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no
small measure on them and on the librarians.

Christopher Morley

#27. Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers. Thank you.

Cecelia Ahern

#28. I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

J.A. Konrath

#29. Booksellers in the gross are taken for little better than a pack of knaves and atheists.

John Dunton

#30. The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghanistan. There are millions of stories out there, millions of potential Booksellers of Kabul or Valentino Achak Dengs.

Annia Ciezadlo