Sara Nelson Book Quotations

Random House would have preferred not to have this lawsuit and spend money defending the book and Dan Brown, but they've certainly not been hurt by it.

It's really kind of shocking. I mean it's not common for publishers to pull a book before there's any sort of legal discussion.

The book industry has been deeply embarrassed and I think that her show pointed up the disconnect between publishing and the real world.

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.

Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.