For the last several days I’ve had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I’ve stopped off at a few bookstores around the city, and while I’ve looked at hundreds and hundreds...

The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past...

Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It’s almost worse.

To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store…To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for...

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

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

A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him yours just to spite you.

Lover of books, lover of knowledge.

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.

Today is the first day in history.-One of Nathan’s Daily GemsFrom the ‘Book Store ON Main Street’Seal Beach, CA

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they’ve recommended to you.

Books on the bookshelvesAnd stacked on the floorBooks kept in basketsAnd propped by the doorBooks in neat pilesAnd in disarrayBooks tucked in closetsAnd books on displayBooks filling cranniesAnd books packed in nooksBooks massed in windowsAnd...

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

Books are more to treasure than cars.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can’t get that from a computer.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

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.

I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

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...

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

Discovery a good book is like finding a great treasure.

I find things hidden in books: dried flowers, locks of hair, tickets, labels, receipt, invoices, photographs, postcards, all manner of cards. I find letters, unpublished works by the ordinary, the anguished, the illiterate. Clumsily written...

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged

Book buying habits; I can afford to live without food and save the money to a book.

No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.

Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had undergone a significant transformation or vanished: Cody’s in Berkeley, seven branch libraries in Philadelphia, twelve...

One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged

You can’t just walk away when you see a good book but to buy and own it.

Your reciept is your library card.” — On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.

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...

Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged

…bookstores, libraries… they’re the closest thing I have to a church.

We want splendid books, books that immerse us in the splendor of reality and keep us there; books that prove to us that love is at work in the world next to evil, right up...

Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.

It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged

I didn’t go to bookshops to buy. That’s a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and...