We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.” — Garrett Leigh Copy Share Image
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I always thought that television was the way to go in my goal to invade pop culture because it got to towns… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the… — Michael Sims Copy Share Image
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in,… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“... physical bookstores will become ever-nicer places to be. They are going to have more sofas, better lattes, nicer people working there.… — Richard Brandt Copy Share Image
Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone told me something recently about Sarah Palin, someone I trusted in the book business. They said, "I worked with Palin. She… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast… — Michael Cisco Copy Share Image
“The cultural critic Leon Wieseltier angrily noted, “The streets of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores,… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time. — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
