Booksellers Quotes

• I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Book, Thinking, Suspense Novels

  Sobre "Amor mortal" en HarperCollins, 2004.

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• I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.

  James Rollins

  Book, Names, Suspense

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• You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.

  John Green

  Book, Secret, Algorithms

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• I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.

  Piers Anthony

  Book, Self, Amazon

  Interview with Dag Rambraut, www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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

  Alain de Botton

  Lonely, Book, Being Alone

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton (Chapter IV "Consolation For Inadequacy", p. 148), 2000.

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• Todas las mujeres de mi vida han sido bibliotecarias, profesoras de inglés o libreras. Si no sabían hablar Tolstoi en jerga, articular Henry James o indicarme cómo llegar a Usher y Ox, no había nada que hacer. Siempre he anhelado la educación, y las conversaciones de almohada son las mejores.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, Giving, Speak

  Foreword to "A Passion for Books" by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan, 1999.

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• Su librero de segunda mano no tiene rival en cuanto al valor de los tesoros que distribuye.

  Leigh Hunt

  Second Chance, Hands, Treasure

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs”, p.58

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• Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

  Horace

  Men, Poetry, Mediocrity

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, Lines 372 - 373, c. 18 BC.

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• You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

  John Green

  Book, Algorithms, Good Book

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• The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Generous

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.352

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• Fui a una librería y le pregunté a la dependienta: '¿Dónde está la sección de autoayuda? Me dijo que si me lo decía no serviría de nada.

  George Carlin

  Divertido, Hilarante, Sarcástico

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• Los libros son fáciles de encontrar y de comprar. Hoy en día, un libro de bolsillo sólo cuesta seis o siete dólares. Te lo pueden prestar tus hijos.

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Kids, Dollars

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 05, 2015

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• Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Teacher, Book, Hands

  Source: blog.booksamillion.com

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• Hay tres dificultades en la autoría: escribir algo que merezca la pena ser publicado, encontrar hombres honestos que lo publiquen y conseguir que hombres sensatos lo lean. La literatura se ha convertido ahora en un juego, en el que los libreros son los reyes, los críticos los truhanes, el público la baraja y el pobre autor la mera mesa o la cosa sobre la que se juega.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Kings, Writing, Men

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• there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Laughter, Book, Play

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). "Mi historia", Farrar & Rinehart

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• "Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged".

  Terry Pratchett

  Speak, Print

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• Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Clothes, People, Mind

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• Ser escritor puede ser aislante. Es bueno estar entre lectores y libreros.

  Lev Grossman

  Lector

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• Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist.
  [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis
  Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

  Horace

  Men, Ordinary, Poet

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• Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

  Susan Orlean

  Fate, Decision, Borders

  "Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.

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• 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

  Summer, Country, Children

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• Ojalá pudiera celebrarse una conferencia internacional de paz de libreros, porque (sonreirán ante esto) mi propia convicción es que la felicidad futura del mundo depende en no poca medida de ellos y de los bibliotecarios.

  Christopher Morley

  Deseo, Felicidad Futura, Mundo

  Christopher Morley (2013). "The Haunted Bookshop", p.123, Melville House.

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• A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.

  P.B. Kerr

  Book, Men, Physicians

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

  James Boswell

  Connections, Printer

  James Boswell (1956). "London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript" (Diario de Londres, 1762-1763, publicado por primera vez en 1950 a partir del manuscrito original).

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• A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Book, Friendly, Littles

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