Bookshops Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Light-leaved acacias, by the door, Stood up in balmy air, Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore, And breathed a perfume rare.

— George MacDonald

“The horizon all around me breathed out perfume announcing her arrival as the fragrance precedes a flower”

— IBN SAFR AL-MARINI POET OF ANDALUSIA

“I breathed in and out, perfume and smoke, perfume and smoke, and we lay like that for a long time, until I heard the…

— Judy Blundell

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew…

— Michael Scott

I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based…

— Yoko Ono

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops,…

— George Orwell

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

— Hilary Mantel

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

— Vincent Van Gogh

My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand…

— Kathleen Tessaro

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

— Terry Pratchett

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit…

— John Grisham

If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a…

— Francis Spufford

“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard”

— Mala Naidoo