Bookstore Quotes

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

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.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

If I'm ever stranded, I hope it's in a bookstore.

Reading is such a personal thing to me.

I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores.

Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000.

Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

I don't want to be in my car all day.

I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually.

So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

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

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000.

Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books - I don't care if they are Great Expectations, Life on the Mississippi and the King James Bible that are on the shelves.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about.

Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore.

I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

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

I'm totally into new age and self-help books.

I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

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

If you walk into any bookstore, you can look at the newsstands and see which magazines are nationally-distributed, and you recognize certain names. Same with television. With the blogsphere, however, you actually have to dig, and know how to use multiple tools to figure out whom you should be speaking to.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.