Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures. — Rodrigo Rey Rosa Copy Share Image
What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop. — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted . Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.” — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges. — Nancy Byrd Turner 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
I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in… — Vincent Van Gogh 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
The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves… — Sara Sheridan 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
I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror… — Peter James 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
I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“It is, incidentally, a favour that e-books have done for the Good Bookshop: they have made books beautiful again. A few years… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own… — George Bernard Shaw 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
I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden? — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I… — John Banville 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
“It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a bookseller. [… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
When I go to places and do book tours, I don't really like doing traditional bookshops. It's nice to walk people through… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge,… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
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