Bookstore Quotes

119 Bookstore quotes by 107 unique authors

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on… — Douglas Coupland
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the… — Andy Rooney
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course,… — Chris Abani
It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more… — Michael Korda
I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community. — Graeme Simsion
Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to… — Max McKeown
Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a… — Virginia Postrel
Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading. — Ruth Ozeki
Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its… — John Clute
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books. — Per Petterson
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section. — John Callahan
A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore… — Gary Shteyngart
If you walk into any bookstore, you can look at the newsstands and see which magazines are nationally-distributed, and you recognize certain names. Same with… — Timothy Ferriss
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another,… — Manny Farber
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. — Unknown Author
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the… — Dennis Miller
It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me… — Stacie Orrico
A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section. — Steve Maraboli

Who Wrote These Bookstore Quotes

107 authors contributed a total of 119 Bookstore Quotes, led by these top contributors: