Booker Quotes

“Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.”
― Clyde Heath

“Los libreros de verdad, incorregibles, como Sophie y yo, no saben mentir. La cara siempre nos delata. Una ceja levantada o una mueca revelan que el libro no merece la pena, y entonces los clientes inteligentes piden que les recomendemos otra cosa, con lo cual los llevamos a la fuerza hasta un volumen en concreto y les ordenamos que lo lean. Si lo leen y les desagrada, nunca volverán. Pero si les gusta, serán clientes para toda la vida.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.”
― Neil Cross

“Without sin, what grace has forgiveness”
― Anonymous

“There are a lot of lonely kids in this world, but the problem is that they don't know about each other. If the lonely kids could just team up, a lot of good things would happen, but the world is incredibly afraid of lonely people teaming up, and so it does its best to keep them apart.”
― Matthew Quick, Every Exquisite Thing

“La culpa de todo la tiene el kilt, no sé que embrujo tiene ese pedazo de tela de cuadros".”
― Liz Hay, LA PIEL TIENE MEMORIA

“I began to refer to myself as the Hooker who won the Booker.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me