Bookstores Quote by Erik Larson Download Open image “I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.” — Erik Larson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bookstores Moved
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“In my head, owning a bookstore meant I could hide in the back reading all day, while other bookworms came and went without a sound, resembling almost a library or, better yet, a convent. People never talked to me or to each other, we were just a secret society of readers, alone but together in silent unity. In reality though,… — Kristi Hayes Copy Share
I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I walked out of the movie "Lincoln" and bought the book [of Doris Kearns Goodwin] at the bookstore next door. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I've heard from the movie marketplace that James Cameron did such a killer job with 'Titanic' that it's almost impossible to do anything better. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I also feel that it just about… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion—that you were aboard a ship being propelled far… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone's got warts, and everyone's got a surprise side. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precision what it was about men like Holmes that could cause them to seem warm and ingratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that… — Erik Larson Copy Share
. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“At present," he said, "I am responsible for conveying my associates to a place called Chicago. I understand it is somewhere in the hinterland.” — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I knew from an online search that the Wisconsin State Historical Society, on the vast University of Wisconsin campus, held the papers of Sigrid… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Trying to find ideas is the hardest part of my job. You'd think it would be the most fun. Just sitting around reading whatever… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Her blind endorsement of Hitler’s regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached,” — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical… — John Naisbitt Copy Share
“Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Your reciept is your library card." -- On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share
“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
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