#bookstore

In those days, there was no money to buy books. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#memoir #reading #money

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bookstore #discworld #read #reading #read

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches. ↗

— Anita Diament

#bookstores #church #churches #college #come

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to. ↗

— Moby

#college #community #community college #i #life

Wooed by a vivid cover, she picked one up and leafed through it. She loved thee way it smelled, the ink, the fine paper, the oversized photographs. ↗

— Elizabeth Brundage

#book-shelves #bookstore #love

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

Just handling this ocean of different books—new and used, in and out of print, famous and forgotten—it was literature as this giant mosaic of texts and experiments and attitudes. I think it’s just very liberating to break out of a great man’s theory of history. I guess I’ve always liked working from that sense of—what would you call it?—license that the margins permit. I always just visualize myself writing books that were meant one day to be dusty, forgotten volumes being encountered by intrepid browsers in a used bookstore. It was a much less freighted way to think about trying to enter the conversation than to imagine I had to write The Great Gatsby. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#attitude

Don't die a pauper, don't die a commoner and a weakling. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#be-different #book #books-reading #books-reading-bibliophily #bookstore

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#human #human nature #nature #weak #where