Bookshops Quotes

55 quotes by 44 authors

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I… — Helene Hanff
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really… — Terry Pratchett
Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending… — Jo Walton
I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadnâ€™t known I wanted. — Mary Ann Shaffer
Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop. — Jo Walton
Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. Itâ€™s natural in times of great… — Kate Morton
Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of… — Terry Pratchett
His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing… — Cecelia Ahern
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because… — George Orwell
Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains… — Christopher Morley
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world. — Vincent Van Gogh
CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of… — Richard Stallman

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