Bookshop Quotes

36 quotes by 31 authors

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again… — John Banville
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond
My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And… — Hilma Wolitzer
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. — John Cowper Powys
Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks.… — Frederick Busch
A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop. — Virginia Woolf
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card… — John Grisham
I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't… — Marilyn Hacker
Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this makes me a… — Henrietta Rose-Innes
My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then… — William Gibson
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't… — Salman Rushdie
I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling… — Will Self
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. — Terry Pratchett
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 book… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a… — Vincent Van Gogh
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he… — George Bernard Shaw
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop â€“ a big enough one so that the staff wouldnâ€™t hassle a browser… — Francis Spufford
Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them.… — Terry Pratchett
The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be… — Marian Keyes

Who Wrote These Bookshop Quotes

31 authors contributed a total of 36 Bookshop Quotes, led by these top contributors: