Books Quote by Bob Wall

“people who served his customers. In conversations, he had the capacity to make each person feel important and as the total focus of his…

— Bob Wall

“Occasionally, out of curiosity or goodwill, someone would speak to him, but his response would be so off the mark that they would disappear…

— Shion Miura

“He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface.…

— Jenny Nimmo

“No matter how poor he was at communicating with people, with books he could engage in deep, quiet dialogue.”

— Shion Miura

“I liked his bookstore manner. He was curious but not entirely focused, interested yet nonchalant, veering between a Look what I've found and Of…

— André Aciman

“How intimately I experience in my heart just what he must have felt in all of those unknown rooms, some of them poor, perhaps,…

— Anna Kavan

“He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that could you recommend.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“As a reader, I could put on someone else's shoes and live through his adventures, borrow his individuality and make choices that I didn't…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“He was an average-looking, hard working fellow who was more comfortable reading about people in books than socializing with them.”

— Cindy Thomson

“I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they said it,…

— Dean Koontz

“That was the way he had lived his whole life. To him things were simple. You reached out and took, and if you felt…

— Ronald Everett Capps