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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses ...
Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.
I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.
Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry.
As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books
I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.
The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.
I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.
I am a bookworm.
A bookshelf is a biography written by others.
A book is a friend.
I wouldn't have a career if it weren't for independent bookstores.
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos ...
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
Your reciept is your library card.
On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.
I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.
A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.
I buy thousands of books a year.
For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.
How he described the bookshop: where the streets of the world meet the avenues of the mind.
Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need
A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.
I buy, collect and read books.
From The Corner To The Corner Office - It's Not Just A Book, It's A Lifestyle!
Happy indeed are those days when the book-lover has been accorded the freedom of some ancient library. A delicious feeling of tranquillity pervades him as he selects some nook and settles himself to read.
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
What's a book boyfriend and how do I find them so I can kick their asses?
Although I was always a keen library user, buying books was a different order of bliss, because I would get to live with these ones.
(A Chat with Emma Donoghue)
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Some of my best friends are books.
I tend books the way someone in an aviary tends birds.
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
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.
You're gay, you sell books ... you probably shag the books.
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
A place is not really a place without a bookstore.
she was, whichever city or state, whatever mood she was in, there was nothing like a book store to fill her up with happiness.
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 can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
[Harry Potter Beyond the Page: A Virtual Author Visit with J.K. Rowling (Scholastic / Stacks webcast, October 11, 2012)]
A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.
A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way..
Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.
it's a misconception that book sellers look after books, they look after people.
I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being.
I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
Jeffrey Makala, the friendly and astute rare-books and special collections librarian who will be my guide, confirms my opinion that librarians, along with independent-bookstore owners and dedicated middle- and high-school teachers, are the most selfless guardians of literature on earth.
Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
CUSTOMER: What kind of bookshop is this?
BOOKSELLER: We're an antiquarian bookshop.
CUSTOMER: Oh, so you sell books about fish.
You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?
Book buying is a relationship activity, and you need a means to develop relationships with readers and new fans of your work
I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
And she is the reader
who browses the shelf
and looks for new worlds
but finds herself.
Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.
I buy way too many books.
Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Books which are no books.
Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world
the brains of men.
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Bookstores are temples and stories are my prayers.
I collect new books the way my girlfriends buy designer handbags.
There are two kinds of books in this world. One improves the mind, the other the bank balance. Sometimes they're the same
but not often. Most publishers find combining the two is the only way to stay afloat.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.
Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.
CUSTOMER: Oh, look, these books are all signed. (Pause) I wonder who signed them ?
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A well-read highwayman, who would have thought?" the dowager commented.
"Oh, he absolutely adores books. He plans to retire when he has enough money and furnish his library with hundreds of books. He has already started a collection by stealing all he can find off lords and such.
The trouble with bookshops is that they are as bad as pubs. You start at one and then you drift to another, and before you know where you are you are on a gigantic book-binge. My brief case was full to bursting and I had bundles of books under both arms. I was bowed down by the weight of them.
A good book will keep you fascinated for days. A good bookshop for your whole life.
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
Books: the one thing the librarians cared about more than the rules.
Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.
I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario.
I love buying and collecting good books: I am passionate reader. This is my sacred life.
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.
After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.
this is a book about somethingBook-- C.s. Lewis
It is the man who loves reading books who gets to know himself
You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
CUSTOMER: Is your mother around ?
BOOKSELLER: ... I run this bookshop.
CUSTOMER: Oh. Sorry.
Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books ... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.
The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.