We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any…

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

— Sally Mann

Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find matches for…

— Dominique Browning

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of…

— Chris Abani

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I…

— John Larroquette

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

— Anonymous

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a…

— Gary Shteyngart

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections,…

— Roger Ebert

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

— Anonymous

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book,…

— Frank Herbert

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

— Robert Frost

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold…

— Nicole Krauss

“Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.”

— Adelise M. Cullens

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

— Larry McMurtry

If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size…

— Brian Helgeland

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

— Gabrielle Zevin