Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and read a book at your own volition to obtain an information...

You could say we run a dating service. If you make a request, we can hook you up with some books that will take you on a date you will never forget.

I despair of ever getting it through anybody’s head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what’s written in the books. I don’t browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you...

Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath gets slower and deeper as I peruse the shelves. I believe that books...

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

Maybe I’ll open a bookstore,” he smiled. “New and used books– so everyone has a chance to see the world through the pages of a story.

I don’t feel sorry for myself, Beck. Lots of people have shitty parents and roaches in the cabinets and stale, raw Pop-Tarts for dinner and a TV that barely works and a dad who doesn’t...

Don’t die a pauper, don’t die a commoner and a weakling.

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore it knows it’s not fooling a soul.

I had a friend once who looked at his library and discovered that even if he completely stopped filmmaking (he was a filmmaker too) and just decided to read the books he had in his...

No matter how much money I made from writing, I’d keep the bookstore job.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn’t have any money for lawyers.

Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

The name Mary Jo Quinn was written neatly in faded blue marker on the front of the scrapbook, its gray edges frayed with age and wear, as though it had been handled often. Such a...

Books are a treasured friend, however it’s difficult to explain it to a non-reader.

Write what you know best. If you can’t survive a cross-examination from a lawyer on the subject, you won’t survive an interview with a journalist or anchorperson.” Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications.

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it...

Read good books to improve yourself.

Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.” Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal. New York Times, 10/16/2011

Where’s your church?””We’re standing in it.””But this is a bookstore and it’s a Friday.””Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum...

Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.

I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I’ve seen it happen over and over again.

On the best nights, he’d appear outside the bookstore window and wait for me to unlock the door. He usually hadn’t had time to shower between doing things with cattle and horses and coming to...

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

In a bookstore you can find me in the romance section, because I’m not a lover, I’m a reader.

Walking into a bookshop is a depressing thing. It’s not the pretentious twats, browsing books as part of their desirable lifestyle. It’s not the scrubby members of staff serving at the counter: the pseudo-hippies and...