Bookstores Quote by John Updike

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

— Roy Blount, Jr

“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

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

“they do have these things called bookstores there. I've heard tell that if you give them money, they let you leave with a book.”

— Lauren Morrill

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

— David Crosby

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.

— Irvine Welsh

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

“The only way to save bookstores is to keep children coming to them.”

— sarah jio

“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

I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.

— Graeme Simsion

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel…

— Caroline Leavitt