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Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.
Usually i select books, of late books opt for me
If books are not good company, where shall I find it?
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.
Libraries are where it all begins.
Fletcher Free Library. (Supposedly,
And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.
The library is always an adventure!
Bookstores are temples and stories are my prayers.
Why buy a book when you can join a library.
Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.
I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.
The public library is the great equaliser.
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
Bookstores contain the residue of thousands of people who went in there to find an experience, a narrative that guided them to a new place or reinforced what they were doing.
I am obsessed with good buying books
I need to experience books, not just read them.
I hunger for books.
What better place to kill time than a library?
Bookstores, libraries ... they're the closest thing I have to a church.
The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.
Hey, amazon.ca, that's the online bookstore or whatever, right?
-Yep
-What's the website for that?
Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.
(Waterstones Trafalgar Square)
Maybe I could find a book to help me beat my book-buying addiction.
I mainly buy books in my free time.
When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop.
You may have heard the news that the independent bookstore is dead, that books are dead, that maybe even reading is dead - to which I say, Pull up a chair, friend. I have a story to tell.
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
Bookshops are
time machines
spaceships
story-makers
secret-keepers
dragon-tamers
dream-catchers
fact-finders
& safe places.
(this book is for those who know this to be true)
I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go ...
All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)
A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
A good book will keep you fascinated for days. A good bookshop for your whole life.
If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.
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.
Books are real places, make no mistake about that
The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.
After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
Lacey-girl, books take you anywhere. Any place you want to go. You remember that always.
Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.
I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.
I usually shop at Charlotte Ruth and Bebe.
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it.
A library filled with thousands of books waiting for a thirsty kid like me to gulp them down.
I went into a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.
The books of the 1920s and '30s that are most inviting, with their handy size, generous margins, and sharp letterpress type.
Wherever it might be that good men like Smit go to when they die I hope very much that it has a decent library.
I love to slip into the bookstore. It is my haven. I don't have to prove myself there.
!!!!Any BOOK Accepted as Cash!!!!
Libraries are our friends.
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.
I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it's usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.
Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want. Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace
Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.
If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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.
I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
If you try to walk in my shoes, you'll end up in a bookstore.
The library, I presume," he said quietly. "I've a fondness for libraries.
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.
The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.
Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.
. . . everywhere a good and a bad book
book's website, to guide
HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry.
What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.
Laundromat, mini-mart, nail salon, pet shop, Books of Darkness.
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books,
I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.
Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.
where fewer than five percent of books sell over 1,000 copies.
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.
Books are really places, make no mistake about that.
I wanted stores that would feel like a comfortable room in my apartment, cozy and colorful and different.
Your reciept is your library card.
On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.
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)
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.
I'm getting tempted to visit the Bookhouse myself. No telling what else you'd find on those shelves.
Books aren't something you sell! They're something you buy and collect and accumulate in big piles!
The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.
I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling to the belief that it's important to maintain those businesses which put a human face on the exchange of money for goods and services.
I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.
My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.
Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.
We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.
The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.
Why buy books when you can read them online