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“I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.”

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Author:Ruby Wax

“Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.”

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Author:John Green

“What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.”

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Book:Goodnight June: A Novel

Source: Goodnight June: A Novel

“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.”

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Author:James Patrick Kelly

“I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.”

Author:Pharrell Williams

“Ralph Nader choose the man with whom to share the responsibility of running a distant third, California activist Peter Camejo. You may remember that Camejo ran for president in 1976 on the Socialist Workers Party ticket. Actually, you might only remember that if you run a lesbian, vegetarian, bookstore.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.”

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Author:Lincoln Child

“I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.”

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Author:Robert Sheckley

“Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

“I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.”

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Author:George Whitman

“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.”

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Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.”

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Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.”

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Author:John Green

“Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.”

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Author:George Carlin

“But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”

“Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.”

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Author:Nicholson Baker

“The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.”

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Author:Bruce Boxleitner

“The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.”

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Author:Anita Diament

“My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.”

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Author:Kate DiCamillo

“Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?”

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Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.”

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Author:Adam Gopnik

“When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.”

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Author:Mike Greenberg

“Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.”

“At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.”

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Author:Richard Paul Evans

“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!”

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Author:David Eagleman