Asks Quote by Ruby Wax

“My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand…

— Kathleen Tessaro

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

— Richard Russo

Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid…

— Yann Martel

“Like everywhere else in the world, the book stores of Britain are struggling with being pushed out of the market by online booksellers. The…

— Alana Muir

Overall, I'd say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.

— Julie Kagawa

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell…

— W. P. Kinsella

The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but…

— Annia Ciezadlo

“Discovering dedicated mystery booksellers was a bit like going to heaven without having to die first”

— Val McDermid

Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available…

— Kevin Myers

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres…

— Elizabeth Hand

“Booksellers in the gross are taken for little better than a pack of knaves and atheists.”

— John Dunton

"Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged".

— Terry Pratchett

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

— Horace

“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.”

— Leona Rostenberg