Top 254 Bookstore Quotes & Sayings

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

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

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it's the same on the Web.

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Whereas now when people come up to me, they say, "I love the bookstore" and "Kids! Come here, come here! This is the woman who owns the bookstore." That's incredible. I can say to that, "Thank you for shopping local. Thank you for coming in. What are you reading? Let's talk about books." It's about something I'm doing as opposed to somehow something I am. I feel comfortable and positive in that role. Because it's about reading. It's about books. It's about learning. It's about business and tax base.

The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!

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

I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.

A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'

A bookstore has thousands of titles to sell. You need to be the guy the store attendant recommends to the reader.

Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.

I think bookstore browsing will become more cherished as time goes on because it can't be replicated virtually.

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

The first bookstore I loved wasn't a little independent gem nestled in a neighborhood: it was a modest Waldenbooks in our local shopping mall.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.

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.

The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there.

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

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

I was doing worship as a lifestyle before it was a section at the bookstore.

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

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.

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

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

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

Owning a bookstore was right up there with acting in life goals, but other than swaggering around the store, I'm not much use.

No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.

I am still surprised when I walk into a bookstore and see my name on a book's binder.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

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

Go to any bookstore, and you'll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there's a lot of self-help going on. There is hope.

If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos.

Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read all those books. It makes you happy you're in the bookstore, and you're nervous because you know you're never going to read all those books. So the nervousness is also happy. Once I get going writing poetry is one of the happiest things I do, but it is also fraught with all of these anxieties.

After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

I walked out of the movie "Lincoln" and bought the book [of Doris Kearns Goodwin] at the bookstore next door.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

I used to walk in a bookstore and see all these books on the walls. And I would say, 'Who wants to hear from me? What do I have to add to all of this?'

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

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

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

Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves.

I am driven by love and I have been in love with a handful of different people, men and women. It's like, if you go to a bookstore and you know exactly what kind of book you want, you have to look it up in the system because it's in a specific section of the bookstore. I fit into a handful of sections in the bookstore.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.

I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.

I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.