America Quote by John Hodgman

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

— Roy Blount, Jr

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

— David Crosby

a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and…

— Jane Smiley

“The moment I walk into a bookstore, I remember what I love about them. They are an oasis of intellectual calm. Perhaps it’s the…

— Michael Lopp

“Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“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

Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They…

— Gabriel Zaid

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

— Chris Abani

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 am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

— Lewis Buzbee

“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