Bookstores Quotes

156 Bookstores quotes by 135 unique authors

I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not… — R C Sproul
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
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows… — Bill Cosby
As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration. — Tim Gunn
Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers. — Gail Carriger
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
Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that… — Yann Martel
...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church. — Jim C. Hines
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
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
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too… — Jason Epstein
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. — Jason Epstein
On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to… — Ian Frazier
I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour,… — Barry Eisler
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books. — Julia Glass
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known,… — Caroline Leavitt

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