Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Korda

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.

Lisa Jackson

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

David Crosby

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

Lisa McMann

I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.

When the parade began, Lloyd came out of the bookstore and was standing on the sidewalk. And when he saw me he called out in a very loud voice: "JOE! Isn't this wonderful! Isn't this a marvelous day! Can you imagine this ever happening?

Nancy Werlin

No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

William T. Vollmann

I first got really interested in Noh in about 1977. There was an independent bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana where I was going to high school. It was a really nice place. There was a New Directions paperback. It was the Pound/Fenollosa book, 'The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan.'

Gene Nelson

One thing libraries have learned from bookstores in the last decade is marketing. We're trying to entice people to read.

Manny Farber

One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

I have never checked online. I've always used the bookstore because it's convenient.

I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,

Alice Braga

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Graeme Simsion

I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.

John Updike

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

Ruth Reichl

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

We just won't be a walk-in bookstore anymore. As long as there are call-in orders we will keep that (side of the business) going.

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

Ricky Jay

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.

P. C. Cast

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Erik Larson

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

John Connolly

Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.

PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.

Annalee Newitz

Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.

David Armstrong

This is the first time I've been to a bookstore that I actually had to search for.

Gabe Norwood

Even our bookstore didn't have the greatest amount. We had a Jai Lewis jersey. I think that might have been it.

Julia Glass

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have beenpresented in the entire history of television."Andrew Ross