Bookstore Quotes
119 Bookstore quotes by 107 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.
— Graeme Simsion
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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
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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
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Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
— Ruth Ozeki
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Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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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
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I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
— Per Petterson
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This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
— John Callahan
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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
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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
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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
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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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: