A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said.” — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard” — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
“Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.” — Unsure of origin Copy Share Image
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond Copy Share Image
I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“I spend some time every week in independent bookshops all over the country and what I see is inspiring!” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Our five-year-old son thinks I ought to work in the local bookshop, and I can see the appeal of that. — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
A visit to a bookshop will be a difficult one if you're looking for any picture book in print that is more… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I can’t see any other reason he would shut down the bookshop, unless it was to help you somehow. He loves books.'… — Jessica Spotswood Copy Share Image
I quite frankly enjoy the touch and feel of a store, so I am a big bookshop person. Or, I go to… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
“Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she… — Lucy Dillon Copy Share Image
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“daughter of the past who walked in all wide-eyed and exhaling like she’d finally found what she was looking for. It was… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“He is totally abandoned in the way he buys book after book, never to read a single one. I wouldn't mind if… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“Books and bookcases cropping up in stuff that I've written means that they have to be reproduced on stage or on film.… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“though books, as Milton says, may be the embalming of mighty spirits, they are also the resurrection of rebellious, reactionary, fantastical, and… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“The bookshop of Kipps is on the left-hand side of the Hythe High Street coming from Folkestone, between the yard of the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“When you walk past a bookshop you haven't visited before, you have to go in and look around. That's the family rule.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
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