Sara Nelson Quotes (12 Quotes)

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

If you target to women in their 50s and 60s, that's a big, prime, book-buying population. It's well-known in publishing that women buy more books than men. And these books are about sex . That's the perfect storm They're about sex, they're geared to women and we know women buy books. You wonder, what took them so long to come up with this idea

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.