Books Quote by Sara Sheridan Download Open image ““Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry.”” — Sara Sheridan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Bookshops Industry Publishing Writing
“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 Copy Share Image
“Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.” — Unsure of origin Copy Share Image
Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“The trouble with bookshops is that they are as bad as pubs. You start at one and then you drift to another, and before… — R.T. Campbell Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?” — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“I spend some time every week in independent bookshops all over the country and what I see is inspiring!” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures. — Rodrigo Rey Rosa Copy Share Image
“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“Given a good pitch and the right amount of capital, any educated person ought to be able to make a small secure living out… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Most people go in bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, almost magically willing people to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
