Bookstores Quotes - Page 3

• Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

  Bill Nye

  Book, People, Television

  Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

  Charles Lamb

  Dog, Book, Reading

  Charles Lamb (1841). “The Essays of Elia”, p.62

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• Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.

  Anna Quindlen

  People, Way, Feels

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.13, Ballantine Books

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• Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Daughter, Book, Cat

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.180, Bantam

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

  Benjamin Carson

  Book, Reading, Library

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• I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Hands, Next

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• Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find matches for our tastes. That's because not only is there no accounting for taste, there is no predicting it either.

  Dominique Browning

  Algorithms, Matter, Taste

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• Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Reading, Average

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• I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

  Jason Mraz

  Love, Letting Go, Book

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• Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Book, Independent, Ties

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• In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

  Bill Cosby

  Courage, Children, Dark

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• 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.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Art, Book, People

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• The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.

  Bill Ayers

  Independent, People, Humanity

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

  John Green

  Independent, Careers, Ifs

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• As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

  Paul Krugman

  Online, Said, Shops

  "Economist Paul Krugman Is a Hard-Core Science Fiction Fan". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. May 30, 2012.

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

  Rachel Cohn

  Ifs

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.134, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

  Albert Mohler

  Book, College, T Shirt

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• For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes and needs of the moment. Only libraries take the long view, quietly shelving the unused with the used, knowing that one of these days the two categories will be reversed by a student's discovery of those hitherto undisturbed volumes whose contents will unsettle the learned world.

  Helen Vendler

  College, Discovery, Views

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• Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Kids, Dollars

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 05, 2015

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• Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Book, People, Wiping Out

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

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Ice Cream, Sorrow

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his titles, I tell the clerk to order what is missing. I do it because I want people to read my father's work.

  John Fante

  Father, Book, Order

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• After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Years, Practice

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• A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Moving, Book, Way

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• Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Self, Cities

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