Books Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

— Nicholas Royle

On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself…

— Ian Frazier

“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 am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Roy Blount, Jr

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

— Julia Glass

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

— Graeme Simsion

“No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores…

— John Green

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

— David Crosby

I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just…

— Mary H.K. Choi

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I…

— Gabrielle Zevin