Bookstores – Quotes

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers. Gail Carriger

A place isn’t a

A place isn’t a place until it has a bookstore. Gabrielle Zevin

Here is a biblical

Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves. Gabriel Fackre

Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy something that theyve been told is good, make an unsuccessful attempt to read it, and when they have accumulated half a dozen unread books, feel so bad that they are … Read more

Reading is such a

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I’d much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books. Erik Larson

I thought I’d go

I thought I’d go to a bookstore and see what moved me. Erik Larson

Why is thinking about

Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn’t matter whether it’s American TV or British TV. And there’s entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime. Elliott Colla

Library books were, I

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others. Elizabeth McCracken

As for whether genre

As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don’t at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn’t settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets … Read more

I was once doing

I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, \”Well, if I had a student like that I’d force him never to write like that again because … Read more