#bookstore

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

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The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. ↗

— George Carlin

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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

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

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My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village. ↗

— Michael Scott

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Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. ↗

— Rick Moody

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