Bookstores Quotes - Page 2

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.

It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace.

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as Lemony Snicket, and I immediately interrupted her and said, "Oh no, Lemony Snicket isn't here," and then she tried to cancel the event right then and there.

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

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.

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.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

V'lane: Are you busy tomorrow MacKayla ? Barrons: She's working on old texts with me. V'lane: Ah. Old texts. A banner day at the bookstore. Barrons: We're translating Kama Sutra...with interactive aids.

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.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

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.

If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it is. But for the most part, it's not a huge turnout.