“I remember a time when bookshops smelled of books and not coffee.” — David Llewellyn Copy Share Image
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden? — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop. — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges. — Nancy Byrd Turner Copy Share Image
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted . Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.” — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It's when more bookshops close… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stained is about a lonely bookshop keeper, and her past comes back to haunt her. I play a femme fatale, schizophrenic serial… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
“It's the same with books, you see mounds of them in bookshops and you want to read them all, or at least… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What exactly is it you'd like to know? [the book store manager asked]. He had an odd expression, like he was asking… — Jennifer McMahon Copy Share Image
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“But what were even gold and silver, precious stones and clockwork, to the bookshops, whence a pleasant smell of paper freshly pressed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures. — Rodrigo Rey Rosa Copy Share Image
![“What exactly is it you'd like to know? [the book store manager asked]. He had an odd expression, like he was asking her a trick question. [Katherine] thought a minute. What DID she want to know? Why had she taken the trouble to come out in the cold to learn about a woman she'd never heard of until…” quote by Jennifer McMahon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2cb/jennifer-mcmahon-16596_artistic-endeavor_what-exactly-is-it-you-d-like-to-know-th_2709892.jpg)
