There was only one place I could go to for help. I needed…

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

— Taylor Goldsmith

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

— David Crosby

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

— Sally Mann

“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

“A place ain’t a place without a bookstore,”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.

— Graeme Simsion

“November, a dark, rainy Tuesday afternoon. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. The shortened light of the afternoon and the…

— Lewis Buzbee

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

I first got really interested in Noh in about 1977. There was an independent bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana where I was going to high…

— William T. Vollmann

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

— Peter Dinklage

“... Bookstore, which smelled the way only a new book from England does when you open it for the first time, faintly like nutmeg,…

— Frederick Beuchner

“The bookstore was a wreck. That much hadn't been a dream. I began to stand and stopped, realizing there was a sheet of paper…

— Karen Marie Moning

Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got…

— Adam Yauch

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

— Larry McMurtry

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

— Nick Hornby