Bookshops Quotes

Bookshops Quote of the day

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

When I go to places and do book tours, I don't really like doing traditional bookshops. It's nice to walk people through something instead of just standing up in a bookstore.

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?

It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a books

A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard

I love books because I don't have to wait for the commercials to be over to find out what happens.

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It's when more bookshops close down and more drinking bars are opened to replace them!

How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.

The world of books is my fantasy.

I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.

Archie says books are our best lovers and our most provoking friends.

It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.

…secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made of paper and ink.

Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.

CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?

Read enough books.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.