Bookstores Quotes

• I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

  Sean Astin

  Book, Missing, Three

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

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Soul, May

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  World, Good Things, This World

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• The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.

  Paul Krugman

  Book, Needs, Digital

  "Paul Krugman: Economist and sci-fi buff". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. May 06, 2012.

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• Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

  Richard Russo

  Library, World, Conversation

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 15, 2013

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• a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Avid, Order

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Feb 23, 2012

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• A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

  Gabrielle Zevin

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

  Erik Larson

  Moved

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

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Book, Reading, Learning

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• You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.

  John Green

  Book, Secret, Algorithms

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• A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.

  Jason Epstein

  Book, Taken, Hands

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

  Tahereh Mafi

  Sitting, Pages, Shelves

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

  Robert Frost

  Firsts, Towns, Asks

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.163, Harvard University Press

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

  Reese Witherspoon

  Crazy, Heart, Want

  "Oh Reese Witherspoon, is that really you?". www.cnn.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

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• 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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• Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Powerful, Book, Desire

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama II”, p.412, RosettaBooks

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• I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

  Chris Colfer

  Smell, Energy, Paper

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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