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A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged


Kerry E. Wagner


#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged


Kerry E. Wagner


#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.” Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal. New York Times, 10/16/2011


Russell Grandinetti


#e-books #libraries #publishing #change

I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.


Jerry Pinto


#bookstores #reading #love

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.


George Carlin


#bookstores #self-help #purpose

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.


Neil Gaiman


#bookstore #towns #books

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.


Anthony Burgess


#books #bookstore #branch #chain #city

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.


John Green


#bookstores #crazy #i #i think #independent

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.


Carl Hiaasen


#astounding #books #bookstore #department #depending

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.


Erik Larson


#go #i #me #moved #see






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