Bookstores Quotes

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

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

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

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.

When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

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.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

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

I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song.

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

I never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.

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

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.

Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of a succubus who moonlights as a Christmas elf?" "You always said I should quit the bookstore and find something else to do," I reminded him. "Yes, but that was because I thought you'd go on to do something respectable. Like become a stripper or the Mayor's mistress.

My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.

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

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.