Books Quote by Roy Blount, Jr

“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there…

— Roy Blount Jr

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

“Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“There’s something about a bookstore that is so calming. It’s a place where I feel like I belong, like everyone there is part of…

— AnnaLisa Grant

The person, be it lady or gentlemen who has not pleasure in a good book must be intoleranlty stupid.

— Jane Austen

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is…

— Christopher Morley

“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

“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is…

— Atwood H. Townsend

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

— Taylor Goldsmith