18 Quotes by Deborah Meyler

People write for ego gratification, not money.

You know, what I've always done is take a look through a book, look at the paper stock, the printing, the publisher, the actual content, and, taking everything into account, I price it. . . . And now I can't. The fact that I can check this book . . . — the fact that I can check this book on the Internet means that I have to check this book on the Internet.

It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.

I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away.

It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.

When you take into account ebooks and Kindles and such, we're doing pretty good.

I never got int the library thing. I always liked that I could put my hand on a book when I wanted it. And to know I owned them; that was important too.

We're high on the adrenaline of feeling, even though we know it's fleeting and evanescence. And we're getting worse -- checking texts and emails and Facebook every five minutes, always searching for that next hit of feeling, that next morsel of approval.

Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.