Bookstores Quotes · Page 2

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

— Robert Frost

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“What was an apocalypse to a man whose world was already gone?”

— Rebecca McKee

“Profitable bookstores sell books. Unprofitable book sellers store books.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

— Per Petterson

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

— Anonymous

“Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men”

— Kerry E. Wagner

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I…

— Kate DiCamillo

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

— Chris Abani

“Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of…

— Adelise M. Cullens

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

I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who…

— Kate DiCamillo

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky…

— Michael Scott

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

— Tahereh Mafi

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys…

— Douglas Coupland

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

We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But…

— Andrew Levitas

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for…

— Frank Herbert

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia…

— Jo Nesbo

My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look…

— Michael Dirda

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore…

— Daniel Handler

When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer…

— Anne Fadiman

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves…

— Sean Astin

It's like so great to be in Toronto and to see everything that's in the books and everything they reference and to…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders,…

— James V. Schall

“We want splendid books, books that immerse us in the splendor of reality and keep us there; books that prove to us…

— Laurence Cossé

I think if you come from where I came from and where I have always been, I've always been reaching out and…

— Hillary Clinton

“And don't you just love the heterogenity of bookstores? toko buku itu bukti nyata bahwa keragaman selera bisa kumpul di bawah satu…

— Ika Natassa

“Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles…

— L.R. Knost

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

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums…

— Jane Jacobs

“Bookstores are temples and stories are my prayers.”

— Jaye Wells

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

— Roy Blount, Jr

“I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

— Demetri Martin

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

— Rick Moody

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

— Chris Colfer

I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

— Lewis Buzbee