Bookshops Quotes

• Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

  John Grisham

  Country, Book, Cards

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• So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  World, Good Things

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1260, Delphi Classics

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• A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

  David Almond

  Book, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Magic, Paper, Perfume

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• I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Book, Finding The One, Years

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• Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this world after taking a wrong turning in their own bookshops in worlds where it is considered commendable business practice to wear carpet slippers all the time and open your shop only when you feel like it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Practice, Space

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.100, Random House

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• Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Doors, Bores You

  "The Golden Notebook". Book by Doris Lessing (1962), Introduction, 1971 edition.

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• I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

  Heinz Pagels

  Commitment, Science, Reason

  Heinz R. Pagels (1988). “The dreams of reason: the computer and the rise of the sciences of complexity”, Simon & Schuster

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• A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

  Terry Pratchett

  Black, Discworld, Holes

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “Night Watch”, p.11, A&C Black

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• I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Book, Email, Literature

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• I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.

  Helene Hanff

  Book, Home, Despair

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• The Bookshop has a thousand books,
  All colors, hues, and tinges,
  And every cover is a door
  That turns on magic hinges.

  Nancy Byrd Turner

  Book, Doors, Color

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• What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Soul, May

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Education

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

  John Cowper Powys

  Islands, Opiates, Poison

  John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon

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• Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Right Time

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Inspirational, Sweet

  "Morituri Salutamus" st. 21 (1875)

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• 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.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

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• Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Heart, Mean

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.59, Macmillan

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• There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Bores You

  "The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing, (Introduction), 1971.

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• Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.

  Jo Walton

  Sunflower, Said, Turns

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.154, Macmillan

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• My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unaffected.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Spiritual, Husband, Passion

  Kathleen Tessaro (2013). “Elegance and Innocence: 2-Book Collection”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Brain, World

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.17, Melville House

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• A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

  Virginia Woolf

  Healing, Hands, Perfect

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• To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Hands, Together

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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