Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books,… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old… — John Callahan Copy Share Image
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel,… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be… — John Clute Copy Share Image
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and… — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find… — Dominique Browning Copy Share Image
The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
There's a whole line of critique about Amazon that's culture-based, about how they're wrecking the experience of bookstores. I personally am less… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf.… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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