We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men” — Kerry E. Wagner Copy Share Image
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“But only at Antquarium did I feel a sense of what the library at Alexandria might have been: an accumulation of evidence… — Amy Halloran Copy Share Image
“Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
“Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of… — Adelise M. Cullens Copy Share Image
“He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.” — Garrett Leigh Copy Share Image
I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I… — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
There is more Bible buying, Bible selling, Bible printing and Bible distributing than ever before in our nation. We see Bibles in… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The cultural critic Leon Wieseltier angrily noted, “The streets of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores,… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
Someone told me something recently about Sarah Palin, someone I trusted in the book business. They said, "I worked with Palin. She… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in. — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
![“[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or…” quote by Robert Anton Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/75d/robert-anton-wilson-1198_bastille_my-wife-liked-to-collect-old-encyclopedi_864543.jpg)
