Bookstores Quotes - Page 6

• A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.

  St. Lucia

  Beautiful, Book, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.

  Elliott Colla

  Thinking, Culture, Matter

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.

  Florence King

  Book, Home, Cities

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.93, Macmillan

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• I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

  Per Petterson

  Book, Oslo, Language

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• The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger MWA can be, the better it can serve us, and the more respect it can bring to bear in dealing with the problems most of us face every day.

  Charles Todd

  Lonely, Editors, Numbers

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• As an author, I don't really think too much about being a celebrity. It's not like being a movie star or a TV star. It's not as if people recognize me when I walk down the street. That hardly ever happens, and it's just as well. But it is great when people know my books, when I walk through an airport and see them in the bookstore, or when I see someone reading a book on a plane or on a train, and it's something I've written. That's a wonderful feeling.

  Rick Riordan

  Stars, Book, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I was a young comic in New York and I wasn't getting any work, I was wandering around the Lower East Side with my notebook. I would stop at the guitar place on St. Mark's and talk to that dude for a while, then I'd go to the bookstore and talk to that dude for a little while. I had a guy over at the record store, and I'd talk to him for a while. It kept me connected to life.

  Marc Maron

  Notebook, New York, Guitar

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.

  Jeff Bezos

  Book, Borders, Care

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• I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for a living. It?s arduous work and the money is very uncertain. On those rare occasions when I wander into a bookstore it amazes me to see the avalanche of literature and semi-literature that is turned out weekly in this country. The people who write these things are either desperate for money or love starved. Why should anyone on a nice balmy day lock oneself in an office and hit a typewriter for hours on end. I think one of the greatest pleasures in the world is not writing.

  Groucho Marx

  Country, Nice, Writing

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• If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.

  Maeve Binchy

  Moving, Book, Given

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• As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Kids, World

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2011.

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• I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Issues, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.

  Olivia Goldsmith

  Book, Important, Matter

  Olivia Goldsmith (2014). “The Bestseller”, p.370, Diversion Books

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• 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.

  Daniel Handler

  Events, Chains, Stage

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.

  Diablo Cody

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Jesus, Wrath

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• 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.

  Richelle Mead

  Suffering, Mistress, Goes On

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.9, Kensington Books

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• My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.” He always said “your world.” But he called Dublin his city. Merely because he'd been in it so long? Or had Barrons, like me, been beguiled by her tawdry grace, fallen for her charm and colorful dualities? I looked around “my” bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Heart, Our World, Cities

  "Dreamfever". Book by Karen Marie Moning, August 18, 2009.

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• A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Library, Peculiar

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• 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.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Impact, Needs, Financial

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.4, Penguin

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• Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

  Gail Carriger

  Teacher, Grateful, Independent

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• Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Home, Temptation

  Jorge Luis Borges, Calin Andrei Mihailescu (2000). “This Craft of Verse”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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• Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

  Yann Martel

  Soccer, Baseball, Team

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• ...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

  Jim C. Hines

  Church, Library, Closest

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• It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Labels, Ifs, Sections

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