Bookstores Quotes - Page 2

• A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Inspirational, Humorous, Book

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

  Chris Abani

  Nonfiction, Internet, Exciting

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• I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

  Al Yankovic

  Years, Issues, Mad

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loneliness, Book, Being Alone

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Book, Romance, Sections

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

  Mireille Guiliano

  Book, Four, Buying

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• 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.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Hands, Clerks, Cards

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• Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Appreciation, Book, Writing

  "Talking with Jesse James Garrett". Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com.

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• I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

  Gordon Getty

  Paris, Piano, Language

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• I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Coffee, Writing, Thinking

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• Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

  Rick Moody

  Literary Genre, Genre Is, Problem

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• The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

  Anita Diament

  Couple, Book, College

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• By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

  Robert Quine

  Summer, Jobs, Sick

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• As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.

  Tim Gunn

  Inspiration, Long, Amazon

  Tim Gunn (2010). “Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work”, Simon and Schuster

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

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Rooms, Lawyer

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• There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good.

  Scotty Moore

  Real, Book, Cds

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• Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

  Marc Andreessen

  Distance, Party, Phones

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

  Daniel Handler

  Birthday, Book, Thinking

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• Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Book, Hero

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• Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  War, Leader, Victory

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• I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Book, Numbers, People

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• I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

  George Whitman

  Book, Wanted

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• Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.

  Michael Scott

  Christian, Over You, Village

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• I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the café to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.

  Jessica Chastain

  Dog, Beach, Morning

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

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• I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Book, Finding The One, Years

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