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
“Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“A knowledgeable citizen is a powerful citizen because knowledge is power! Make your nation a powerful one... Keep reading to acquire more… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read. Books that had already… — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It's when more bookshops close… — Israelmore Ayivor 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
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
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 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
Its intuition that works. Just intuition.""Waterstones was aimed at me. I knew that I wanted, and badly needed in my life, bookshops… — Tim Waterstone Copy Share Image
[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Corporations that are turning over these huge profits can own everything: the media, the universities, the mines, the weapons industry, insurance hospitals,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Most people go in bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, almost magically willing… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major'… — John Scott Copy Share Image
“From travelling booksellers and undercover bookshops, to pop-up stalls and community hubs, walking into a good bookshop is like walking into another… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether… — Cecelia Ahern 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing 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 did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“It's the same with books, you see mounds of them in bookshops and you want to read them all, or at least… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
![“[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of…” quote by Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/stephen-fry-573_book_on-libraries-what-s-great-about-them-is_3046106.jpg)
![“A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of…” quote by Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26c/jules-de-goncourt-37962_book_a-sign-of-the-times-there-are-no-longer_1210077.jpg)
