Quotes About Good Bookstores

#1. Physical bookstores will become ever-nicer places to be. They are going to have more sofas, better lattes, nicer people working there. Good bookstores are the community centres of the 20th century.

Richard L. Brandt

#2. There are some things we can control and others we simply cannot. And our ability to distinguish between them is critical to our happiness and wellbeing. Sometimes unexpected stuff will happen to us or around us. Our true power lies in our response.

Clifton Anderson

#3. I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write ... He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm not like that. It takes me a long time to put a film together that I want to make.

Duncan Jones

#4. I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

Anton Chekhov

#5. Because whether we're in the middle of the desert or in the heart of a city, or the top of a mountain or on an underground train: having good stories to keep us company means the whole world.

Jen Campbell

#6. This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

Virginia Woolf

#7. Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world

Vincent Van Gogh

#8. An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

Roger Ebert

#9. Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.

Paul Acampora

#10. Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Neil Simon

#11. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Warren Buffett

#12. Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who like talking about books. I like paper. I like how it feels, and I like the feel of a book in my back pocket. I like how a new book smells, too.

Gabrielle Zevin

#13. If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it is. But for the most part, it's not a huge turnout.

Joel Stein

#14. He drank his way across the narrow sea.

George R R Martin

#15. 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