What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find…

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

— Hilary Mantel

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

— Charles Stross

To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is…

— Virginia Woolf

A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

— Virginia Woolf

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which…

— George Bernard Shaw

My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand…

— Kathleen Tessaro

If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a…

— Francis Spufford

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit…

— John Grisham

Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew…

— Michael Scott

I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based…

— Yoko Ono

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops,…

— George Orwell

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

— Terry Pratchett

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard”

— Mala Naidoo