Bookstores Quote by Larry McMurtry

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

— George Whitman

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

— Robert Frost

I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.

— Michael Dirda

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking…

— Paul Krugman

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

— Vincent Van Gogh

We should all miss bookstores. They let you discover things.

— Christie Hefner

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

— Antony Beevor

There are a lot of bars and shoe stores in my early books.

— George Pelecanos

I always look for a bookshop wherever I go.

— Ruskin Bond

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor…

— Carl Hiaasen

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

— Mireille Guiliano