Been Quote by Mark Haddon

I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books.…

— Helene Hanff

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

— Elliot Perlman

“When the occasional customer tells us his or her dream of running a bookstore someday, we recognize our own naivete in that enthusiasm. They…

— Wendy Welch

“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 that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically…

— Anonymous

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

— David Almond

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up…

— Anonymous

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers…

— Amos Oz

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people…

— Scott Spencer