Sara: Favorite Quotes from The Alquemy of Acquisitions

These are some of the quotes that struck me out:

"In other words, a book editor can succeed three times out of ten and feel like a professional loser, while an investor can succeed three out of ten and become a billionaire" - I thought this gave a pretty good overview of how personal can become the acquisition and editing of a book. At the end, you might end up feeling like it is part of yourself and the fact that it didn't succeed might be translated to the feeling of not doing a good job, while a businessman might move on the second it does not work out because for him/her the opportunity itself was the one that failed, not his/her ability to do the job.

"I once asked Jamie Raab, a publisher at the Hachette Book Group, why she had the confidence to spend a vast sum to acquire a first novel. She responded, 'I cried at the last page'" - For me if a book makes me cry it makes it the defining factor to make the book to stand among my favorites. The fact that we reach such a level of empathy with characters that we do not see, that only exist among words, and that make us feel for them as if they are our own beloved ones makes the existence of books a divine event.

"Yet every now and then, we will read something that knocks us out and enlightens us or moves us or elevates us in a way no other book has quite done. And it will all be worth it" - Again, books are the best. Not all of them, as we have discussed in class, but it is also such a subjective feeling. What might be the best for me, can be the worst for others. I quite appreciate that about books, there is always going to be one for every type of reader.  Among hundreds of books that one can read, there is always going to be the book, and that feeling when one finds it is what makes the search so worth it.