Sara Nelson Quotations

To most people he's a novelist, and they don't hold him to the same journalistic standard as they would others. This is not as if Bob Woodward got caught manufacturing quotes from the president.

So many of the boys from town were in the Army.

He shook his head and he didn't think the baby was going to live.

Five million paperbacks is a lot, but I think they'll do fine with this. They'll go after the people who don't want to spend $22.95 on a hardcover, and there are a lot of people like that out there.

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.

They wouldn't let me in the room where she was cause they were afraid I'd get it, too.

I do think that publishers will spend more time thinking about these things the next time out.

The doctors were so busy they couldn't take care of them all.

Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.

When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.

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.