Bookstores Quotes - Page 6

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

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Life, Mystery Novels

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• In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Teacher, Philosophy

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• I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.

  James V. Schall

  Couple, Plato, Book

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• I absolutely fell in love with David Cristofanos writing. THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is that rare novel--its the one youve been looking for when you wander the bookstore aisles, hoping to find something that will grab hold of you and not let go. Eloquent, haunting, and totally enthralling, I was swept in from page one.

  Johanna Edwards

  Girl, Letting Go, Writing

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• Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?"

  Keith Waterhouse

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

  The Spectator, January 15, 1994.

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• I saw that on Small Business Saturday, the president went shopping at a bookstore and bought 17 books, including "The Laughing Monsters," "Being Mortal," and "Heart of Darkness." Or as the cashier put it, "You OK, man? Maybe a little 'Chicken Soup for the Presidential Soul?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Book, Heart, Men

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• I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

  Douglas Brinkley

  College, Library, Literature

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

  Wendy Beckett

  Reading, Museums, Gallery

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• I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

  Pharrell Williams

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Feet, Eight, Historical Novels

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• Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.

  Florence King

  Book, Home, Cities

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

  Jo Nesbo

  Crime Novels, Serious, Broke

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• I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.

  John Green

  Crazy, Book, Independent

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• Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.

  George Carlin

  Library, Adults, Politics

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• But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Support, Vandalism

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• It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace.

  Art Spiegelman

  Alive, Graphic Novels, Harder

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

  Erik Larson

  Book, Reading, Giving

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• I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

  Michael Sims

  School, Library, Tennessee

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• Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.

  Laura Lippman

  Ignorance, Writing, Thinking

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• I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

  Peter Welch

  Mom, Coffee, Together

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• I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Phones, People

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

  Per Petterson

  Book, Oslo, Language

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• I like to go through the zine sections of local bookstores when on the road and have found a lot of really great kind of underground stuff that way. It all feeds into everything else.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Zines, Stuff, Way

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.

  Jason Epstein

  Cities, Support, Population

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• I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’

  Brian Kiley

  Book, Self, Purpose

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