Quotes About Book Stores

#1. In America, they have specialist mystery book stores with whole sections devoted to cat mysteries, golf mysteries, quilting mysteries. It's a hugely broad genre from the darkest noir to tales of a 19th-century vet who solves crimes, thanks to his talking cat.

Mark Billingham

#2. Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.

Annalee Newitz

#3. I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.

Saul Williams

#4. I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

Jean M. Auel

#5. Smash market vs. mass market: Indie authors delve deep into expressive vertical genres. Book stores hold 90-day-credit-return literature. Why wait? In five years, Indie authors will be both.

Peter Prasad

#6. I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends' shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the subway. I find books the way a cow finds a new pasture, by looking to see where the other cows are headed.

Walter Mosley

#7. Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.

Ann Patchett

#8. Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

Jim Woodring

#9. I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.

Joss Whedon

#10. To an evolutionary psychologist, the universal extravagance of religious rituals, with their costs in time, resources, pain and privation, should suggest as vividly as a mandrills bottom that religion may be adaptive. - MAREK KOHN

Richard Dawkins

#11. As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.

Steven Tyler

#12. It's been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.

John Hodgman

#13. I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.

Gabrielle Zevin

#14. When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.

Augusten Burroughs

#15. She stores so many of his words in her head that she feels as if she has become nothing more than a book he has written.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#16. I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

Benjamin Disraeli

#17. Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal.

Kerri Walsh

#18. She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

David Foster Wallace

#19. Healing blessings come in many ways, each suited to our individual needs, as known to Him who loves us best. Sometimes a 'healing' cures our illness or lifts our burden. But sometimes we are 'healed' by being given strength or understanding or patience to bear the burdens placed upon us.

Dallin H. Oaks

#20. Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.

Richard Whately

#21. There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good.

Scotty Moore

#22. Sometimes I'm beside myself wondering who is next to me.

U.L. Harper

#23. My calendar lately is full of work. And you.

Mina V. Esguerra

#24. It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

Raymond Williams

#25. Each store will fulfil some of your needs, but no individual store can meet all of your needs. Learning how to set realistic expectations now and in future relationships requires you to examine each of the existing stores to see what they can offer.

Janet Crain

#26. There are so many books to read. What a paradise!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read a book after dark; in other places across our global body, there are blackouts and curfews every night.

Pico Iyer

#28. The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.

Scott McCloud

#29. Girl time, I'm also learning, can be emotionally exhausting and more than a bit confusing. She's

Heather Lyons

#30. To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

Edward Gibbon

#31. Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Charles Bukowski

#32. The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Margaret Drabble

#33. Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

David Frum

#34. For my money, celery hasn't got a mean bit of fibre in its body, and we all need to start being much nicer to it.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#35. In recent years, many research studies have come to the same conclusion: Babies who are held, caressed, and kissed develop a healthier emotional life than those who are left for long periods of time without physical contact.

Gary Chapman