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

    Men   Poetry   Rate  
    'Ars Poetica' l. 372
  • The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

    James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”
  • Overall, Id say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.

    Book   People   Helping  
  • 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 (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.123, Melville House
  • 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.)

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

  • 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 (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.291, Bottletree Books LLC
  • [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.

    Real   Greed   Lists  
    Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.
  • 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.

    Book   Focus   Shrewdness  
    Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books
  • There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.

    Kings   Writing   Men  
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Book   Years   Marketing  
  • 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.

    Fate   Decision   Borders  
    "Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.
  • I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.

    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
  • 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'.

  • Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

  • I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

  • 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.

    Book   Names   Suspense  
  • I feel like a lot has changed - ebooks are a much more valid format and bigger presses are taking less chances. As a bookseller, there are less real bookstores and more people buying on-line. As a writer, I think there are fewer paths to break through on a big press, but on the other hand there are more small presses doing awesome work now. Overall, artistically, I think it's a pretty exciting time in the literary world.

    Real   Thinking   Hands  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • 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

    Father   Book   Desire  
  • 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.

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

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

  • Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

    Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs”, p.58
  • I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

    Book   Successful   Novel  
  • I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .

    Book   Law   Branches  
    Edmund Burke (1777). “The Political Tracts and Speeches of Edmund Burke”, p.382
  • 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.

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

    Teacher   Book   Hands  
    Source: blog.booksamillion.com
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