Bookstore Quotes

119 Bookstore quotes by 107 unique authors

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it… — Neil Gaiman
If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black… — Armistead Maupin
I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead. — Thom Yorke
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
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved… — Sarah Addison Allen
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore. — David Levithan
Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but… — Anne Fadiman
I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand… — Pat Conroy
He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she didn't have to… — Karen Marie Moning
V'lane: Are you busy tomorrow MacKayla ? Barrons: She's working on old texts with me. V'lane: Ah. Old texts. A banner day at the bookstore.… — Karen Marie Moning
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their… — Elizabeth McCracken
Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore. — Benjamin Carson
Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I… — Richelle Mead
Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of a… — Richelle Mead
We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust? — Rachel Cohn
My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.” He always said “your world.” But he called… — Karen Marie Moning
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path… — Jane Smiley
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I… — Jorge Luis Borges
It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections. — Audrey Niffenegger
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping… — Anne Fadiman
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find… — Roger Ebert
You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. — Junot Diaz
Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by… — Arthur C. Clarke
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of… — Louis L'Amour

Who Wrote These Bookstore Quotes

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