Bookstores Quotes

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

— Randy Pausch

Christian bookstores have banned our records, but we don't need them.

— Sonny Sandoval

“A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged”

— Kerry E. Wagner

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

“Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.”

— Paul Acampora

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

— Erik Larson

“The only way to save bookstores is to keep children coming to them.”

— sarah jio

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

— Larry McMurtry

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

I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day…

— Louise Erdrich

“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.”

— Sara Sheridan

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to…

— Paul Krugman

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

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

The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest…

— Michael Scott

“He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.”

— Garrett Leigh

The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and…

— Bill Ayers

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing…

— Mike Greenberg

“Books were the main reason Rose worked in bookstores, for no matter how chaotic and strange the worlds in them might be,…

— Anonymous

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

I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in…

— Ai Weiwei

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this…

— Chris Abani

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

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

There is more Bible buying, Bible selling, Bible printing and Bible distributing than ever before in our nation. We see Bibles in…

— J. C. Ryle

Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the…

— Richelle Mead

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

[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book…

— Michael Scott

Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space -…

— John Updike

Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful…

— Anne Fadiman

I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent…

— Nikki Giovanni

“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

“For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a…

— Lewis Buzbee

We should all miss bookstores. They let you discover things.

— Christie Hefner

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

— Jim C. Hines

“ALL THE BOOKS IN BOOKSTORES ARE NOTHING UNLESS YOU WORK.”

— DAVE SANTI

“Until a man begins to read, then He will discover himself.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged”

— Kerry E. Wagner

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

— Gabrielle Zevin