Quotes about Bookstores

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To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and mira — Lionel Barrymore
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell — Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey Speaks: Insights from the World's Most Influential Voice
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain books — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defea — George Carlin
His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1
those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jew — Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wa — Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Bookshop has a thousand books,All colors, hues, and tinges,And every cover is a doorThat turns on magic hinges. — Nancy Byrd Turner
For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a few bookstores a — Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another w — Stephen King, The Waste Lands
Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse. — Paul Acampora, I Kill the Mockingbird
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our p — Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books — Adelise M. Cullens, Dead Bunnies Make All Eight Of Me Cry
Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive. — Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book
If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college. — R. Albert Mohler Jr.
I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy — Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brillia — Veronica Henry, How to Find Love in a Bookshop
There may be little room for the display of this supreme qualification in the retail book business, but there is room fo — A. Edward Newton, A Magnificent Farce And Other Diversions Of A Book Collector
The replacement of independent bookstores by firms such as Barnes & Noble, Waterstones or Borders superficially provided — Sara Ayad, The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to E-Book