Bookstores quotes
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
-- Adam Gopnik -
those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...
-- Anna Quindlen -
Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.
-- Barbara Taylor Bradford -
Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.
-- Benjamin Carson -
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The measure ov overexposure is not how many times people see you on TV or in the bookstores. It's whether you can maintain the quality of your entertainment. If you can, people will always be glad to see you.
-- Bill Cosby -
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
-- Chris Abani -
If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.
-- Demetri Martin -
I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.
-- Douglas Brinkley -
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I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
-- Erik Larson -
I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
-- Garrett Hedlund -
It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
-- George Packer -
I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.
-- George Whitman -
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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.
-- Gordon Getty -
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of America's national treasures--neighborhood bookstores.
-- Jami Attenberg -
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.
-- Jason Epstein -
I like to go through the zine sections of local bookstores when on the road and have found a lot of really great kind of underground stuff that way. It all feeds into everything else.
-- Jeff VanderMeer -
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...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.
-- Jim C. Hines -
Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.
-- Jo Nesbo -
Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.
-- John Clute -
I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.
-- John Green -
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You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.
-- Junot Diaz -
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.
-- Karen Joy Fowler -
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?
-- Keith Waterhouse -
We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
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The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.
-- Lewis Buzbee -
I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.
-- Lewis Buzbee -
There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.
-- Lincoln Child -
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.
-- Nicole Krauss -
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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.
-- Paul Krugman -
I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.
-- Reese Witherspoon -
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
-- Richard Russo -
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
-- Rick Moody -
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I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
-- Tahereh Mafi -
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin -
Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.
-- Vincent Van Gogh -
Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.
-- Wendy Beckett -
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We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.
-- Andrew Levitas -
Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find matches for our tastes. That's because not only is there no accounting for taste, there is no predicting it either.
-- Dominique Browning -
Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so ***** central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.
-- Elliott Colla -
I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.
-- Michael Sims -
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Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores.
-- Jim Steranko
