#book

Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space. ↗

— Forrest Church

#book-lover #books #bookstore #faith #hope

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#accused #books #doing #ever #guests

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. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#back #books #bookstore #bookstores #chain

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#book #brooks #century #early #i

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#bed #before #begins #book #characters

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#back #books #cholera #fire #going

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

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#bookstore #just #lawyers #money #were

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#books #first #money #novels #off

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. ↗

— Robert Chambers

#books #chloroform #mind

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#asked #books #capacity #dearest #editorial