Bookshops Quotes

55 quotes by 44 authors

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in… — Neil Gaiman
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
There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could… — Mark Haddon
I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden? — Hilary Mantel
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on… — Yoko Ono
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping… — Doris Lessing
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
It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want… — Mary Ann Shaffer
I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking… — Mary Ann Shaffer
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
I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down… — Cecelia Ahern

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