Alas! Where is human nature so weak as in the book-store?

“Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends’ shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the…

— Walter Mosley

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

— Jean M. Auel

“tastes and tales from Russia = I could not find the book in library or book store.”

— alla Danishavsky

I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at…

— Joss Whedon

In late 1999, I was walking down Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks with my late producing partner Sharyn Lane after a day of editing…

— Del Shores

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

— Jim Woodring

“Like everywhere else in the world, the book stores of Britain are struggling with being pushed out of the market by online booksellers. The…

— Alana Muir

I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see…

— Saul Williams

They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know…

— Tom Waits

“All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.”

— Ann Marie Frohoff

If you go into a comic book store, there are tons of Star Wars stories on the stand. There are lots of different stories…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I used to actually work in a comic book stores in New York.

— Kevin Sussman

You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book, instead of…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think…

— Lionel Barrymore