We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?
It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.
Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.
I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.
If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it is. But for the most part, it's not a huge turnout.
A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.
I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose. ’
A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.
I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
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.
The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.
If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.
Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.
