Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Jackson

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

Stacie Orrico

It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird.

Annalee Newitz

Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have beenpresented in the entire history of television."Andrew Ross

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

Julia Glass

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.

David Armstrong

This is the first time I've been to a bookstore that I actually had to search for.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Gabe Norwood

Even our bookstore didn't have the greatest amount. We had a Jai Lewis jersey. I think that might have been it.

When the parade began, Lloyd came out of the bookstore and was standing on the sidewalk. And when he saw me he called out in a very loud voice: "JOE! Isn't this wonderful! Isn't this a marvelous day! Can you imagine this ever happening?

Roy Blount, Jr.

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

Pharrell Williams

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

Gene Nelson

One thing libraries have learned from bookstores in the last decade is marketing. We're trying to entice people to read.

Manny Farber

One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

I have never checked online. I've always used the bookstore because it's convenient.

Patti Smith

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

Dave Eggers

I don't think there's a neighborhood where more writers live. There is no neighborhood in the world - and I've looked - with more independent bookstores in such a small area.

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,

Alice Braga

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

David Crosby

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

Lisa McMann

I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.

William T. Vollmann

I first got really interested in Noh in about 1977. There was an independent bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana where I was going to high school. It was a really nice place. There was a New Directions paperback. It was the Pound/Fenollosa book, 'The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan.'

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

Ricky Jay

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.

P. C. Cast

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

Richard Davis

Campus bookstores have one advantage. Every fall a brand new crop of freshmen come who go to the college bookstore because they don't know any better.

Caroline Leavitt

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.

Jami Attenberg

It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that is all I really need to know. If they are friendly to me, then we are clearly soul mates.