Booksellers – Quotes

The probability of finding

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

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

I have been told

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 . Edmund Burke

The want of an

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

My genre-hopping has caused

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

Hwang Jung-eun is one

Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation – she’s Han Kang’s favourite, and the novel we’re publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller’s Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities – her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans … Read more

For I bless God

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

I wish there could

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

There are three difficulties

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 … Read more

That’s your truck parked

That’s your truck parked up by the factory isn’t it? Magnus pointed. It’s awfully butch for a bookseller. Cassandra Clare