Authors Quote by Roy Blount, Jr Download Open image “We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.” — Roy Blount, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authors Books Bookstores Die Need Neighborhoods Them Want
Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. — John Updike Copy Share Image
We're conditioned to let businesses fail, regardless of how much we like them. We believe that if the market doesn't want that bookstore to… — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up,… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other… — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.” — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“How long has it been since you and me? Hugs and kisses. Blankets and snuggles. Our sparks smoldering without a fireplace. Losing time is… — 2019 Fidelis O Mkparu Copy Share Image
“Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.” — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.” — Jen Selinsky Copy Share Image
