Bookstores Quotes

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

  Vincent Van Gogh

  World, Good Things, This World

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• I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

  Sean Astin

  Book, Missing, Three

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

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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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• The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.

  Paul Krugman

  Book, Needs, Digital

  "Paul Krugman: Economist and sci-fi buff". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. May 06, 2012.

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• Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Party, Book, Together

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

  Richard Russo

  Library, World, Conversation

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 15, 2013

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• a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Avid, Order

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Feb 23, 2012

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• So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Laughing, Titles, Lucky

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.406, Bantam

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• A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.

  Jason Epstein

  Book, Taken, Hands

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

  Erik Larson

  Moved

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

  Gabrielle Zevin

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• I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces I've never heard of.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Adults, Criminals

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Shakespeare Wrote for Money”, McSweeneys Books

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

  Robert Frost

  Firsts, Towns, Asks

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.163, Harvard University Press

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• You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.

  John Green

  Book, Secret, Algorithms

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• A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Book, Reading, Learning

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

  Tahereh Mafi

  Sitting, Pages, Shelves

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

  Chris Colfer

  Smell, Energy, Paper

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• There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.

  Jack McDevitt

  Teacher, Numbers, Nurse

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.128, Hachette UK

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

  Reese Witherspoon

  Crazy, Heart, Want

  "Oh Reese Witherspoon, is that really you?". www.cnn.com. April 24, 2013.

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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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• Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Powerful, Book, Desire

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama II”, p.412, RosettaBooks

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• I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

  Lewis Buzbee

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• My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Two, Goal

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• Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

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

  Lewis Buzbee

  Allies, Limits, Natural

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