Friendship Quote by Wendy Welch

“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

“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

“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

I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books.…

— Helene Hanff

“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

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been…

— Mark Haddon

Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.

— Rodrigo Rey Rosa

“A good book will keep you fascinated for days. A good bookshop for your whole life.”

— Waterstones

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books…

— George W. Bush

“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

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

“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have…

— Alberto Manguel