Bookshops Quotes: top 40 famous quotes about Bookshops

Bookshops Quotes & Sayings

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Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. — Kim Stanley Robinson

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. — David Mitchell

Read enough books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry. — Sara Sheridan

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

I still think that going in on that Friday afternoon and spending that money was one of the happiest experiences of my life. — Jen Campbell

I have restaurants, bookshops ... but it's not an empire, more ... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same. — Alain Ducasse

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

I don't want to talk about Nicki Minaj anymore. — Azealia Banks

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. — Charles Stross

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. — Heinz R. Pagels

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

Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied. — Mark Billingham

How he described the bookshop: where the streets of the world meet the avenues of the mind. — Jen Campbell

Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better. — Mark Forsyth

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's. — Rowan Williams

In his natural perversion, a man wants to lie with a hooker, wed a virgin, and keep both. — Ron Brackin

A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Is there world enough for me? — Jane Frances

To believe all you have to do is look at the sky. — Kathryn E. Livingston

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

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black. — Helen Hunt Jackson

Who wouldn't want to get married in a room full of love stories? — Jen Campbell

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life. — Sarah Hall

Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain. — Eileen Wilks

I spend some time every week in independent bookshops all over the country and what I see is inspiring! — Sara Sheridan

One looks forward to the day when the General Theory of Relativity and the Principia will outsell the Kama Sutra in back-street bookshops. — J.G. Ballard

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more. — Jacques Delors

Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures. — Rodrigo Rey Rosa

I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders. — Sara Sheridan

Shame breeds fear. It crushes our tolerance for vulnerability, thereby killing engagement, innovation, creativity, productivity, and trust. — Brene Brown

Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers. Thank you. — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Neil Gaiman

When a flower fails to bloom it robs the world of beauty. — Matshona Dhliwayo

surrender to the strident sunshine, it — Bobby Adair

I remember a time when bookshops smelled of books and not coffee. — David Llewellyn

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

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you. — Cleopatra