Bookstores Quotes

Bookstores Quote of the day

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

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

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song.

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.

It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so vivid.

Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves.

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