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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert,… — Tim Waterstone Copy Share Image
Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Stained is about a lonely bookshop keeper, and her past comes back to haunt her. I play a femme fatale, schizophrenic serial… — Tinsel Korey 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
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
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
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
Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I went to the Vatican once - it was a bad idea. I went into the bookshop and I bought hideous, pious… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it… — James E. Burke Copy Share Image
The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The trouble with bookshops is that they are as bad as pubs. You start at one and then you drift to another,… — R.T. Campbell Copy Share Image
It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this… — Henrietta Rose-Innes 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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