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The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed;… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a… — Jason Epstein
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing. — Renata Adler
If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will… — Antonya Nelson
You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you. — Princess Diana
I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as… — Robert Carlyle
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family -… — Calvin Trillin
Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf. — Sam Ewing
Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for… — Mike Figgis
Over the long haul, salespeople come and go, but having top-shelf management in place is the ultimate answer. — Jason Jordan
Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf,… — Roy Ayers
Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping are one and… — John Heilpern
"Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these… — Kanye West
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good… — David Quammen
Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the… — Jandy Nelson
Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves. — Will Thomas
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As… — Lawrence Wright
When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but… — Niall Williams
For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not… — Ben Ehrenreich
My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the… — Kathleen Tessaro
A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American… — Tristram Stuart
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf, — Albert Sabin
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced… — Don Pendleton
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space.… — Alberto Manguel

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