Quotes About Independent Bookstores

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Acknowledgements
With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

Gail Carriger

#4. I wouldn't have a career if it weren't for independent bookstores.

John Green

#5. I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.

John Green

#6. Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy.

Debasish Mridha

#7. It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Blaise Pascal

#8. A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

Andy Stanley

#9. Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

William Shakespeare

#10. 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

#11. What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.

Alan Alda

#12. We can only solve our biggest problems if we come together and embrace the freedoms that our Founding Fathers established right here in Philadelphia, which permitted our ancestors to create the great American exceptionalism that all of us now enjoy.

Michael Bloomberg

#13. We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

Kathy Acker

#14. If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

Amber Benson

#15. On fine nights when the cold and the drumtaps, and the hooting of the owls, and the moonlight, have got into their wild, woodland blood and made it even wilder, they will dance till daybreak.

C.S. Lewis

#16. My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

Charles De Lint

#17. Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.

Sarah Polley

#18. The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

Quintus Curtius Rufus