Booksellers Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Book, Law, Branches

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

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• 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

  Law, Magazines, Literature

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

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• My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always surprised at the kind of people that come to my readings. That they are such a mix of ages and colors. It looks like people spilling out of an elevator.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Reading, Color, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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