Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact. - Calvin Trillin
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher
Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing. - Philip Seymour Hoffman
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. - Jerry Seinfeld
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. - Carolyn G. Heilbrun
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where’s the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. - Steven Wright
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. - George Carlin
If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college. - R. Albert Mohler Jr.
They stopped next at a bookstore. "Oh, what a delicious smell of new books!" said Ellen, as they entered. "Mamma, if it wasn't for one thing, I should say I never was so happy in my life. - Susan Bogert Warner
A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. - Jerry Seinfeld
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me. - Tahereh Mafi