Bookstore Quotes

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. (George Carlin)
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. View quote
Junot Diaz
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist. View quote
Bruce Boxleitner
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. View quote
Rick Moody
I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead. View quote
Thom Yorke
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. View quote
Anthony Burgess
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. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders. View quote
Jack McDevitt
Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices. We don't see shelves of books on how to use television sets, telephones, refrigerators or washing machines. Why should we for computer-based applications? (Donald Norman)
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?" View quote
Keith Waterhouse
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books. View quote
Per Petterson
There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them. View quote
Ruth Reichl
A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore. View quote
David Levithan
I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me. View quote
Erik Larson
Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the café to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach. View quote
Jessica Chastain
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. View quote
Gordon Getty
The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now. (John Katzman)
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors. View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?' View quote
Sean Astin
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday. View quote
Daniel Handler
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. View quote
Chris Abani