Bookshops Quotes - Page 2

• Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.

  Rodrigo Rey Rosa

  Book, Ideas, Murmuring

  Rodrigo Rey Rosa (2014). “Margellos World Republic of Letters: Severina”, p.17, Yale University Press

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• I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

  Hilary Mantel

  Garden, Hands, Very Happy

  "Author, author: I feel nostalgic for disorder" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. April 03, 2009.

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• Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

  Frederick Busch

  Why Not, Littles, Pounds

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• The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.

  John Scott

  Fate, Reviews, Critical

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• My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, Thinking, Fiction

  "Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon". TIME interview, content.time.com. September 25, 2005.

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• I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Numbers

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• The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Writing, Animal

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• Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, Father, Book

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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-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. 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, Reading, Doors

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

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• The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)

  Marian Keyes

  Book, Smell, Looks

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• Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Mean, Hands

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• I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

  Nicholas Royle

  Complaining, Trails, No Patience

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Kids, Dollars

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 05, 2015

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• Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Sarcastic, Book, Cynical

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• In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.

  George Orwell

  Long, London, Towns

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Its intuition that works. Just intuition.""Waterstones was aimed at me. I knew that I wanted, and badly needed in my life, bookshops just like the ones I was creating. I simply assumed that plenty of other people, no doubt of wildly differing demographics, would find once they saw them that they wanted them too. Well - they did.

  Tim Waterstone

  Success, Creating, People

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• My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And that's saying something. The feel of them and the smell of them. A bookshop was like like an Aladdin's Cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Book, Smell, Clothes

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• A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Book, Friendly, Littles

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• It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things. Destroy those bookshops, and the very commercial and cultural base to the book industry is destroyed. Once and for all. Like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put together again.

  Tim Waterstone

  Book, Simple, Together Again

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• I am a regular if not exactly enthusiastic patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling to the belief that it's important to maintain those businesses which put a human face on the exchange of money for goods and services.

  Will Self

  Book, Important, Trying

  "The Essential David Shrigley" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

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• I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

  John Banville

  Book, Past, Fantasy

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• The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

  Terry Pratchett

  Truth, Book, Bad Day

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• Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.

  Kate Morton

  Thinking, Smell, Air

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Book, Hands, Feelings

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