Independent Bookstore Quotes

#1. I first got really interested in Noh in about 1977. There was an independent bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana where I was going to high school. It was a really nice place. There was a New Directions paperback. It was the Pound/Fenollosa book, 'The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan.'

William T. Vollmann

#2. Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read one of the stories in it already, and several other Saunders stories in magazines and anthologies, and liked them all.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#3. The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.

Bill Ayers

#4. Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

Ruth Ozeki

#5. You may have heard the news that the independent bookstore is dead, that books are dead, that maybe even reading is dead - to which I say, Pull up a chair, friend. I have a story to tell.

Ann Patchett

#6. Jeffrey Makala, the friendly and astute rare-books and special collections librarian who will be my guide, confirms my opinion that librarians, along with independent-bookstore owners and dedicated middle- and high-school teachers, are the most selfless guardians of literature on earth.

Maureen Corrigan

#7. The return of the Independent Bookstore is the answer to the stack 'em high, sell 'em cheap megastores.

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#8. My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.

Sarah Dessen

#9. I'm older than I was before when I was young.

Julianne Moore

#10. Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.

Peter Dicken

#11. The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

Robert Anton Wilson

#12. Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.

Bill Laswell

#13. Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#14. I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

Lisa Jackson

#15. The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

Vinod Khosla

#16. You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.

Brian De Palma

#17. I really like Jason Blum a lot. We're friends, and while we make wildly disparate films, we share a philosophy about low-budget filmmaking, about taking chances on young filmmaking, taking risks and obliterating our salary so we can make something cheaply and if it wins everyone wins big.

Mark Duplass

#18. Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

#19. In business, your positive thoughts and lifestyle choices lead to your personal success and your career success.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#20. Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

William Cowper

#21. Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.

Jill Soloway