Bookshop Quotes
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Bookshop Quotes & Sayings
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The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.
— Virginia Woolf
We find paradise in every library and bookshop.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
CUSTOMER: Is your mother around ?
BOOKSELLER: ... I run this bookshop.
CUSTOMER: Oh. Sorry. — Jen Campbell
BOOKSELLER: ... I run this bookshop.
CUSTOMER: Oh. Sorry. — Jen Campbell
Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.
— Jo Walton
After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.
— Nigel Hamilton
His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Puckett's Stacks was not the sort of bookshop one happened upon; it was the sort of bookshop for which one looked deliberately.
— C. Robert Cargill
Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.
— J.K. Rowling
The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.
— C.S. Lewis
There was, as she put it, nothing to stop me. So I followed the path of educated misfits through the ages and got a job in a bookshop.
— Hari Kunzru
When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop.
— Sarah Hall
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
— Terry Pratchett
I love lying here with you, under the books.
— Cath Crowley
How he described the bookshop: where the streets of the world meet the avenues of the mind.
— Jen Campbell
A town without a bookshop is a town without a soul.
— Lucy Dillon
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?
— Jen Campbell
It's like he's picking up parts of the world and showing them to me, saying, See? It's beautiful.
— Cath Crowley
In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.
— Rachel Hall
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
— John Cowper Powys
Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.
— John Waters
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Going to open a quaint little bookshop and have a niche section called "Men's Interests" where we shelve the Western Cannon.
— Alana Massey
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.
— John Banville
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
— David Almond
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Because you, my dear, of all people know what a magical place a bookshop can be and that everyone needs a little magic in their lives. I
— Annie Darling
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.
— Caroline Kepnes
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
Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.
(Waterstones Trafalgar Square) — Waterstones
(Waterstones Trafalgar Square) — Waterstones
It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.
from The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop — Lewis Buzbee
from The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop — Lewis Buzbee
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.
— Mark Haddon
The Bookshop has a thousand books,
All colors, hues, and tinges,
And every cover is a door
That turns on magic hinges. — Nancy Byrd Turner
All colors, hues, and tinges,
And every cover is a door
That turns on magic hinges. — Nancy Byrd Turner
I spend some time every week in independent bookshops all over the country and what I see is inspiring!
— Sara Sheridan
When you walk past a bookshop you haven't visited before, you have to go in and look around. That's the family rule.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
CUSTOMER: What kind of bookshop is this?
BOOKSELLER: We're an antiquarian bookshop.
CUSTOMER: Oh, so you sell books about fish. — Jen Campbell
BOOKSELLER: We're an antiquarian bookshop.
CUSTOMER: Oh, so you sell books about fish. — Jen Campbell
Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.
— Frederick Busch
I see the beauty of books and sacred-souls of every author displaced in a bookshop.
— Lailah Gifty Akita