bookshops

A writer__ primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore__ is to make cents.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It's when more bookshops close down and more drinking bars are opened to replace them!

A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don't read, you have not yet begun anything!

How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

The world of books is my fantasy.

I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop. The truly wide taste in humanity will similarly find something to appreciate in the cross-section of humanity one has to meet every day.

Archie says books are our best lovers and our most provoking friends.

It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.

_secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made of paper and ink.

Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.

CUSTOMER:_If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard

It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a books

I remember as a very young child being warned that libraries and bookstores were quiet places where noise wasn__ allowed. Here was yet another thing the adults had gotten wrong, for these book houses pulsed with sounds; they just weren__ noisy. The books hummed. The collective noise they made was like riding on a large boat where the motor__ steady thrum and tickle vibrated below one__ sneakers, ignorable until you listened, then omnipresent and relentless, the sound that carried you forward. Each book brimmed with noises it wanted to make inside your head the moment you opened it; only the shut covers prevented it from shouting ideas, impulses, proverbs, and plots into that sterile silence.