"Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they……" — Jo Walton
"Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop."
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23 Quotes by Jo Walton
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The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole…
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If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
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I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but…
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I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I…
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There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall…
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It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
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If you love books enough, books will love you back.
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There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.
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Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to…
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You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse…
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I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half…
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One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and…
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More Bookshop Quotes
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I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank.…
— John Banville
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A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a…
— David Almond
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My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much…
— Hilma Wolitzer
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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island…
— John Cowper Powys
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Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't…
— Frederick Busch
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A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.
— Virginia Woolf
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Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a…
— John Grisham
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I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on…
— Marilyn Hacker
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Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I…
— Henrietta Rose-Innes
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My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that…
— William Gibson
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what…
— Salman Rushdie
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I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some…
— Will Self
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