Amazon Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

There's a whole line of critique about Amazon that's culture-based, about how they're wrecking the experience of bookstores. I personally am less focused on…

— Lina Khan

To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when…

— George Packer

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

Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is…

— Lev Grossman

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

— Gabriel Zaid

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books appear…

— Robert M. Pirsig

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

— George Packer

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

— Barbara Corcoran

I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes &…

— James V. Schall

Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

— Poe Ballantine

Browse Amazon reviews, and you'll see a surprising number of readers who believe one novel can summarize a country, its culture, and its people.

— Celeste Ng