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• I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank.… — John Banville
• I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. — Heinz Pagels
• Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures. — Rodrigo Rey Rosa
• A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a… — David Almond
• I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made… — Jerry Pinto
• Its intuition that works. Just intuition.""Waterstones was aimed at me. I knew that I wanted, and badly needed in my… — Tim Waterstone
• My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much… — Hilma Wolitzer
• A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was… — Jules de Goncourt
• A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island… — John Cowper Powys
• My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But… — Kathleen Tessaro
• It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile,… — Tim Waterstone
• Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't… — Frederick Busch

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