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Bookstore Quotes

I first came across the script for ‘Macbeth’ between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play Picture Quote #1

You can find my book at your favorite bookstore, and if it isn’t there, find a new favorite Picture Quote #1

When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that’s exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting Picture Quote #1

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper Picture Quote #1

I think it’s easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it’s just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore Picture Quote #1

I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out Picture Quote #1

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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don’t know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks Picture Quote #1

Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I’ve spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore Picture Quote #1

Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can’t - I’d end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I’d be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like it quiet Picture Quote #1

No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there’s another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo Picture Quote #1

What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle Picture Quote #1

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What’s better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books? Picture Quote #1

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We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book Picture Quote #1

When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they’re all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered Picture Quote #1

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that’s what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample Picture Quote #1

If you’re going to have a book published in China, that means that you’re going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don’t get onto bookstore shelves Picture Quote #1

Nobody in France would ever say ‘He’s a Jewish novelist’ or ‘She’s a black novelist,’ even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a ‘Gay Studies’ section Picture Quote #1

The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world! Picture Quote #1

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Television isn’t inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television’s the same way. If you’re going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things Picture Quote #1

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it’s true, but they don’t have any evidence that it is true! Picture Quote #1

For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction Picture Quote #1

I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me Picture Quote #1

Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves Picture Quote #1

I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and published novels; it couldn’t be so hard, right? Picture Quote #1

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I myself don’t know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I’m frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again Picture Quote #1

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar Picture Quote #1

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You’re lucky if you can control your bladder Picture Quote #1

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time Picture Quote #1

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I first came across the script for ‘Macbeth’ between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play. (Bookstore Quotes) You can find my book at your favorite bookstore, and if it isn’t there, find a new favorite (Bookstore Quotes) When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that’s exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting. (Bookstore Quotes) I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper. (Bookstore Quotes) I think it’s easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it’s just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore. (Bookstore Quotes) I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out. (Bookstore Quotes) I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don’t know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks. (Bookstore Quotes) Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I’ve spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore. (Bookstore Quotes) Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can’t - I’d end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I’d be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like it quiet. (Bookstore Quotes) No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there’s another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo. (Bookstore Quotes) What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle. (Bookstore Quotes) I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What’s better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books? (Bookstore Quotes) We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book. (Bookstore Quotes) When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they’re all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered. (Bookstore Quotes) Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that’s what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample. (Bookstore Quotes) If you’re going to have a book published in China, that means that you’re going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don’t get onto bookstore shelves. (Bookstore Quotes) Nobody in France would ever say ‘He’s a Jewish novelist’ or ‘She’s a black novelist,’ even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a ‘Gay Studies’ section. (Bookstore Quotes) The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world! (Bookstore Quotes) Television isn’t inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television’s the same way. If you’re going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things (Bookstore Quotes) What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it’s true, but they don’t have any evidence that it is true! (Bookstore Quotes) For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction (Bookstore Quotes) I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me (Bookstore Quotes) Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves (Bookstore Quotes) I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and published novels; it couldn’t be so hard, right? (Bookstore Quotes) I myself don’t know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I’m frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine (Bookstore Quotes) 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 (Bookstore Quotes) The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again (Bookstore Quotes) A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar (Bookstore Quotes) So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You’re lucky if you can control your bladder (Bookstore Quotes) I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time (Bookstore Quotes)

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