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
We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust? — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party. — Roy Blount, Jr 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
“Your reciept is your library card." -- On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she… — Karen Marie Moning 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
Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd… — Ronald Gross Copy Share Image
“The replacement of independent bookstores by firms such as Barnes & Noble, Waterstones or Borders superficially provided a wide range of reading,… — Sara Ayad Copy Share Image
Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers… — Dave Barry 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
Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
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
As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time. — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
“There are actually undiscovered books in tiny bookstore nooks waiting to be discovered. Doesn’t that get you excited?” — Todd B. Vick 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
Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Altogether, I can’t imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there. Wherever” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged” — Kerry E. Wagner Copy Share Image
What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
