Booksellers Quotes - Page 2

• The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Book, Focus, Shrewdness

  Gabriel Zaid "Tantos libros: Leer y publicar en la era de la abundancia", Paul Dry Books

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• 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

  Kabul, Middle East, Stories

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• [Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Real, Greed, Lists

  Entrevista con Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. 21 de agosto de 2015.

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• Hwang Jung-eun es una de las estrellas más brillantes de la nueva generación surcoreana: es la favorita de Han Kang, y la novela que publicamos ha sido galardonada con el prestigioso premio Bookseller's Award, destinado a obras de ficción aclamadas por la crítica que también tienen un amplio atractivo popular. Destaca por su atención a las minorías sociales -sus protagonistas son habitantes de barrios marginales, mujeres trans, huérfanos- y por la forma en que combina esta dura crítica social con elementos oblicuamente fantásticos y diálogos poco convencionales.

  Deborah Smith

  Estrellas, Premios, Enfoque

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• Háblese del apetito por la bebida, o del gusto de un bon-vivant por la cena. Qué son estas meras angustias y desvaríos animales comparados con esas fantasías del gusto, de esos anhelos de la imaginación, de esos insaciables apetitos del intelecto, que desconciertan a un estudiante en el salón de tentaciones de un gran librero.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Imagination, Temptation

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• it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

  Jilly Cooper

  Ideas, Years, Bored

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

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• There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Song, Drinking, Book

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been "writer."

  Michael Scott

  Long, One Day, Lasts

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• Conozco a muchos escritores mayores que tuvieron mucho éxito y cuyos libros están ahora descatalogados, por lo que hay que acudir a librerías de viejo para comprar su quinta u octava novela o lo que sea.

  William Boyd

  Book, Successful, Novel

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• If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

  Voltaire

  Father, Book, Desire

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• Overall, Id say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.

  Julie Kagawa

  Book, People, Helping

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• Creo que han cambiado muchas cosas: los libros electrónicos son un formato mucho más válido y las grandes editoriales se arriesgan menos. Como librero, hay menos librerías reales y más gente que compra en línea. Como escritor, creo que hay menos posibilidades de abrirse camino en una gran editorial, pero por otro lado hay más editoriales pequeñas que hacen un trabajo impresionante. En general, artísticamente, creo que es un momento muy emocionante en el mundo literario.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Real, Pensamiento, Manos

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Real, Thinking, Decision

  William Stanley Jevons's reflections on his earlier life, written when he was 27 (December 1862); later published in "Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons" edited by Harriet A. Jevons, his wife (p. 12), 1886.

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• 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

  Character, Long, Literature

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• Me encanta ver las librerías y conocer a los libreros... los libreros son realmente una raza especial. Nadie en su sano juicio trabajaría en una librería por el sueldo, y nadie en su sano juicio querría tener una: el margen de beneficio es demasiado pequeño. Tiene que ser el amor a los lectores y a la lectura lo que les hace hacerlo, además de ser los primeros en tener acceso a los libros nuevos.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Reading, Book, Mind

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.12, Dial Press

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• Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

  Horace

  Men, Poetry, Rate

  'Ars Poetica' l. 372

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

  Christopher Smart

  Lectura, Biblioteca, Mundo

  Christopher Smart (2016). “Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One”, p.293, Routledge

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• I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller coming out in you all, you were afraid you'd decrease its value. You would have increased it for the present owner. (And possibly for the future owner. I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.)

  Helene Hanff

  Reading, Long, Wish

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• Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.

  Tessa Dare

  Book, Dedication, Soul

  Tessa Dare (2013). “Any Duchess Will Do”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.

  Cassandra Clare

  Truck, Factories

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.737, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Doe, Masters, Brian

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• 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

  Book, Years, Marketing

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• 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'.

  Cera Rubí

  Book, Imagination, Looks

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• Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.

  Alberto Manguel

  Rip, Book, White

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.22, Vintage Canada

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• I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.

  Michael Scott

  Memories, Taken, Age

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