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.
I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.
People here had redwood trees in their backyards. You were never far from the infinite.
As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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.
Just keep her away from bookstores, if you can." Bookstores. Thanks, Grayson. That helps. Apparently whoever said, "no harm ever came from reading a book," hadn't met this girl.
I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
The committees scour the bookstores, printing and publishing houses, paying particular attention to secondhand bookstores. There, they requisition countless copies of 'Incautious Maidens' or 'Flames at the Metropole.' So that those who prefer the fal...
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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 contain messages I am meant to receive. I’m not no...
I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.
Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness.
After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
