I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

Any given day, you'll find me at secondhand bookstores.

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

We should all miss bookstores. They let you discover things.

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

Christian bookstores have banned our records, but we don't need them.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.

I didn't know how many independent bookstores had amazing wine lists until I toured with 'Another Brooklyn.'

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.

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