Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Am I a technocrat? Im just a guy who went down to the bookstore and bought a couple of textbooks on TCP/IP,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service.… — John Katzman Copy Share Image
That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does… — Donald Miller 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
“Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath… — Laurie Horowitz Copy Share Image
I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“We want splendid books, books that immerse us in the splendor of reality and keep us there; books that prove to us… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“He walked among the bookstore shelves, hearing Muzak in the air. There were rows of handsome covers, prosperous and assured. He felt… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“There may be little room for the display of this supreme qualification in the retail book business, but there is room for… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
While I love walking past those beautifully lit bookstores in my neighborhood, what I mostly buy there are blank notebooks and last-minute… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in. — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
“A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him… — Syrie James Copy Share Image
those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs. — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me,… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices.… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his… — John Fante Copy Share Image
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