Alluring Quote by Jane Smiley

A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of…

— Jason Epstein

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool…

— Jane Smiley

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves…

— Anonymous

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

— George Whitman

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

— David Crosby

“Bookstores contain the residue of thousands of people who went in there to find an experience, a narrative that guided them to a new…

— Lauren Leto

“There’s something about a bookstore that is so calming. It’s a place where I feel like I belong, like everyone there is part of…

— AnnaLisa Grant

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I…

— Gabrielle Zevin

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

— Junot Diaz

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

— Richard Russo