Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the number of Books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone… — Alain De Botton Copy Share Image
“Despite the promise of four days of sun and overly sweet wine, Richard was sporting a sour puss. But then that was… — Charlie Hill Copy Share Image
“I had devoted my whole life to books; to bookshops; to booksellers; to bookish people like Charles and Alan. And in doing… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Overall, I'd say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.” — Leona Rostenberg Copy Share Image
Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's definitely a role for online booksellers, but they can't host events, bring people together, and form a personal relationship in the… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s… — Ruby Wax Copy Share Image
Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image