55 Quotes About Bookshops

My heart settled as I walked in, breathing coffee and paper and sunburnt dust. Like all good bookshops, Edgar's was a pocket universe, where time moved slow as clouds.

Choosing to buy a particular book over others only or mainly because it is the cheapest is excusable only if you are learning to read.

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

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!

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?

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

These days, we've got booksellers in cities, in deserts, and in the middle of a rain forest; we've got travelling bookshops, and bookshops underground. We've got bookshops in barns, in caravans and in converted Victorian railway stations. We've even got booksellers selling books in the middle of a war. Are bookshops still relevant? They certainly are.All bookshops are full of stories, and stories want to be heard.

Many of the people who came to us were of the kind who would be a nuisance anywhere but have special opportunities in a bookshop

there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money. In the end one gets to know these people almost at a glance. For all their big talk there is something moth-eaten and aimless about them.