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The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive. -- Walter Jon Williams
Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree. -- Adam Ross
'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback. -- S. E. Hinton
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. -- Berkeley Breathed
For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death. -- Christina Baker Kline
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. -- Don DeLillo
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea. -- William Peter Blatty
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. -- John Thomas Sladek
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money. -- Buchi Emecheta
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. -- Alfred Hitchcock
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them. -- Wilbur Smith
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Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. -- Terry Brooks
I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback. -- Blake Bailey
Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback. -- John Updike
My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember! -- Maeve Binchy
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history. -- Russell Smith
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham. -- Paul Di Filippo
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity. -- Russell Smith
In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback. -- Christina Baker Kline
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on. -- Christine Quinn
I first got really interested in Noh in about 1977. There was an independent bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana where I was going to high school. It was a really nice place. There was a New Directions paperback. It was the Pound/Fenollosa book, 'The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan.' -- William T. Vollmann
One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and 'Maximum Ride': There are a lot of adult readers. In fact, we released 'Maximum Ride' both as a paperback for kids and as a mass release for adults. -- James Patterson
There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch. -- Nicholson Baker
I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you. -- Chip Kidd
The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore. -- Larry McMurtry
When you buy a jacket, itâ??s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback! -- Daniel Pennac
The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket. -- Adrian McKinty
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. -- Jane Hamilton
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. -- John Thomas Sladek
If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell. -- Gordon Lightfoot
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids! -- Jim Rohn
If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor. -- Dov Davidoff
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback. -- William Golding
I really started self-publishing on a serious level in 2002. Those smaller books did well, ended up moving from doing a series to compiling everything into a trade paperback in about 2005. -- Tim Fish
I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback. -- Steve Martin
None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on. -- James Purdy
Forgiveness is capital 'L' Love in action. Until you have to forgive someone, you haven't loved. You just think you have. Until somebody forgives you, you don't know humility. [p342, 1st paperback edition] -- Rea Nolan Martin
If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that. -- Simon Sinek
You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading. -- Neil Gaiman
It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level. -- Anton Szandor LaVey

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