Bookshops Quotes

55 quotes by 44 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
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 difference. — David Almond
I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people… — Jerry Pinto
Its intuition that works. Just intuition.""Waterstones was aimed at me. I knew that I wanted, and badly needed in my life, bookshops just like the… — Tim Waterstone
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 sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [NoÃ«l] France was the last bookseller who provided… — 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 of sirens. — John Cowper Powys
My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the… — Kathleen Tessaro
It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical… — Tim Waterstone
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
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above… — James E. Burke
The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead… — Larry McMurtry
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
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. — Antony Beevor
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
Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm… — Hari Kunzru
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

Who Wrote These Bookshops Quotes

44 authors contributed a total of 55 Bookshops Quotes, led by these top contributors: