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Bookshops Quote by Jo Walton

“Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.” quote by Jo Walton — Download Open image

“Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.”

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It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

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“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard”

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If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser – and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping…

Francis Spufford

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit…

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Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the…

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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Terry Pratchett

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My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand…

Kathleen Tessaro

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So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

Vincent Van Gogh

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I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

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When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

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