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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.
I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.
We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.
No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.
I was doing worship as a lifestyle before it was a section at the bookstore.
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.
Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.
I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.
Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it's the same on the Web.
I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.
Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness.
I think bookstore browsing will become more cherished as time goes on because it can't be replicated virtually.
Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.
I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.
I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal can get published, I can get published.'
I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.
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.
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.
Go to any bookstore, and you'll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there's a lot of self-help going on. There is hope.
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'
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.
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.
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 used to walk in a bookstore and see all these books on the walls. And I would say, 'Who wants to hear from me? What do I have to add to all of this?'
Every newspaper feels it must have an astrology column, and even in the Carleton University bookstore this morning, I found books on astrology for sale.
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.
I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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.
It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.
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.
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?
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.
I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.
I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.