Quotes by Bookstores In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections. Adam Gopnik bookstoresstuffway We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner. Andrew Levitas bookstoresdignityworld Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers. Anna Quindlen bookstorespeopleway 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. Anne Fadiman bookstorescatsleep Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores. Anne Lamott bookstoreschristianjesus It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace. Art Spiegelman graphic-novelsbookstoresalive It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections. Audrey Niffenegger bookstoreslabelsifs Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. Barbara Taylor Bradford bookstoresromancebook If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it? Brian Helgeland bookstorespagescutting In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. Chris Abani nonfictionbookstoresinternet I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper. Chris Colfer bookstoressmellenergy I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as Lemony Snicket, and I immediately interrupted her and said, "Oh no, Lemony Snicket isn't here," and then she tried to cancel the event right then and there. Daniel Handler bookstoreschainsevents Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore. David Levithan bookstoresselfhelping If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find. Demetri Martin bookstoreslifefunny Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find matches for our tastes. That's because not only is there no accounting for taste, there is no predicting it either. Dominique Browning algorithmsbookstoresmatter I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries. Douglas Brinkley librarybookstorescollege 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. E. L. Doctorow bookstoresclerkshands I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry." Edward Hirsch bookstoresnovelistswriting Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime. Elliott Colla bookstoresculturethinking I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me. Erik Larson movedbookstores1234»
