Bookstores Quotes · Page 4

I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

— Wendy Beckett

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

— Rachel Cohn

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

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

— David Levithan

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

— Roy Blount, Jr

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

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

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

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I am driven by love and I have been in love with a handful of different people, men and women. It's like,…

— Nico Tortorella

A young lady went into a bookstore and asked the clerk for Irving Stone's book, "Immoral Wife." The title is "Immortal Wife,"…

— James Keller

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

Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable…

— Florence King

“He walked among the bookstore shelves, hearing Muzak in the air. There were rows of handsome covers, prosperous and assured. He felt…

— Don DeLillo

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is…

— Ricky Jay

I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. If you tell me something's funny, I'll want to rebel…

— Amy Sedaris

Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into…

— Laura Lippman

I feel like a lot has changed - ebooks are a much more valid format and bigger presses are taking less chances.…

— Kevin Sampsell

I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what…

— Edward Hirsch

My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

— Douglas Brinkley

“It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged”

— Kerry E. Wagner

“they do have these things called bookstores there. I've heard tell that if you give them money, they let you leave with…

— Lauren Morrill

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not…

— Anne Lamott

Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.

— Joseph Brodsky

I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book…

— Larry Winget

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

— Sally Mann

“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.”

— Louis L'Amour

Best-selling writers should go to bookstores to say thanks to the booksellers, to meet fans, sign autographs, sign books, talk, whatever.

— John Grisham

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

— Jay Asher

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got…

— Neil Gaiman

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you…

— Paul Krugman

“…secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made…

— Kathleen Tessaro

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow…

— Jim Rohn

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

— Lincoln Child