Bookstores Quote by Adam Gopnik Download Open image “In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.” — Adam Gopnik ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Additional Sections Bookstores Bookstores Stuff Interest Sections Stuff Stuff Usually Usually Filed Way Writer
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just… — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
I find any kind of 'organizing' very difficult. And that has irksome consequences when it comes to books, since I've often wound up buying… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all… — June Squibb Copy Share Image
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think -… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. — Sally Mann 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
...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they… — Michael Scott 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 or even… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
“Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Your reciept is your library card." -- On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image