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“Well, yes, there were quite a lot of books throughout, tumbling out of haphazardly placed bookshelves, stacked beneath chairs, beside beds, even in the…

— Julia Glass

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves…

— Anonymous

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount…

— Jesse James Garrett

“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

“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

[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and…

— Stephen Fry

Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many…

— Terry Pratchett

Books seem so much more interesting in the book store.

— Anonymous

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold…

— Nicole Krauss

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

— Nick Hornby

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

“Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who like talking…

— Gabrielle Zevin