Bookstores Quotes

156 Bookstores quotes by 135 unique authors

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore. — Randy Pausch
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. — Carolyn Heilbrun
Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved… — Karen Joy Fowler
The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own… — Jerry Spinelli
The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of… — Richard Brautigan
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
those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers... — Anna Quindlen
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
Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing… — John Updike
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs
Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can… — John Updike
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
Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and… — Douglas Coupland
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
It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of… — John Hodgman

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