Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore,… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I saw that on Small Business Saturday, the president went shopping at a bookstore and bought 17 books, including "The Laughing Monsters,"… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s… — Ruby Wax Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf.… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be… — John Clute Copy Share Image
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and… — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old… — John Callahan Copy Share Image
![“The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small town in Cornwall where Evelyn has gone on vacation and Brendan is working in his father's bookstore. The story is told from both perspectives, Brendan's and Evelyn's.” quote by Theodora Goss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/341/theodora-goss-10051_book_the-book-the-thorn-and-the-blossom-is-a_3173603.jpg)
![“Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.” quote by Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f88/sherman-alexie-444_bears_nobody-recognizes-that-a-bookstore-or-li_2604376.jpg)
