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The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged. — Lewis Buzbee

Today is the first day in history.

-One of Nathan's Daily Gems
From the 'Book Store ON Main Street'
Seal Beach, CA — Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

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

They do have these things called bookstores there. I've heard tell that if you give them money, they let you leave with a book. — Lauren Morrill

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

Profitable bookstores sell books. Unprofitable book sellers store books. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact. — Lincoln Child

Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they've recommended to you. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But only at Antquarium did I feel a sense of what the library at Alexandria might have been: an accumulation of evidence and suggestions. — Amy Halloran

In those days, there was no money to buy books. — Ernest Hemingway,

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day. — Mark Helprin

The only way to save bookstores is to keep children coming to them. — Sarah Jio

I wouldn't have a career if it weren't for independent bookstores. — John Green

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for. — Paul Krugman

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content. — Sara Sheridan

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life. — George Whitman

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record. — Winona Ryder

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

We both know you can't split a bookstore. (I don't even share shelf space.) — Mary Jane Hathaway

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it. — P.C. Cast

Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles. — John Connolly

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

I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Bookstores contain groceries for the mind! — Jen Selinsky

What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement? — Peter Ackroyd

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. — John Updike

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. — Sally Mann

There is a value to books - unhackable, paper books - that measures far beyond mere ink and paper. — Richard Due

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was. — Daniel Clowes

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. — Richard Paul Evans

Bookstores are temples and stories are my prayers. — Jaye Wells

I am fatally attracted to all bookstores. — Lewis Buzbee

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter. — J.A. Konrath

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

Happy endings are reserved strictly for the fiction shelves of bookstores — Holly Bourne

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer. — Sarah Jio

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college. — R. Albert Mohler Jr.

And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores. — Jeff Bezos

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore. — Gabrielle Zevin

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there. — Gloria Steinem

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square. — John Updike

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find. — Demetri Martin

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world — Vincent Van Gogh

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. — Roy Blount Jr.

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

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores. — Pharrell Williams

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books. — Julia Glass

I wish to continue reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square. — Gloria Steinem

A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him yours just to spite you. — Syrie James

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

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in. — Elliot Perlman

PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages. — M.J. Rose

Some bookstores want you to believe they're a community center, like they need to host a cookie-making class in order to sell you some Proust. — David Levithan

Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him. — Brian Selznick

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores. — Anne Lamott

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death. — Garrett Leigh

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

Your reciept is your library card.
On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores. — Michael P. Naughton

As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration. — Tim Gunn

Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives. — Aman Jassal

I did discover that if you're interested in low wages, a bookstore ranks below retail clothing sales, except the hours are worse. — Sue Grafton

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers ... — Anna Quindlen

In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections. — Adam Gopnik

People open bookstores because they want their souls back.
(from "Two Women" published in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House) — Elizabeth Tallent

I laughed, disarmed. "Shopping isn't really my thing. Not when there are bookstores to be plundered and tombs to be explored. — Kate Mulgrew

We call them taxis where I come from. And bookstores." God, he was stuffy. "We call them manners where I come from, Ms. Lane. Have you any? — Karen Marie Moning

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me. — Mary Karr

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

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. — Rosecrans Baldwin

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore. — Larry McMurtry

Bookstores, libraries ... they're the closest thing I have to a church. — Jim C. Hines

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. — Barbara Taylor Bradford

My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I'd search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel. — Lewis Buzbee

Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse. — Paul Acampora

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper. — Chris Colfer