Book Shops Quotes

“Books are sacred wisdom.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“A life without books is empty.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Jeg kalder nyttige Bøger dem, som sette Boghandlere udi Activitet, som forfremme Handel, og komme deres Gryder til at kaage, ikke saadanne, der sigte alleene til forfængelig Lærdom, som Almuen, der er Landets Styrke, ikke forstaaer, og derfore gemeenligen oplægges med Boghandlernes største Skade, og ligge skimlede paa Bogladene.”
― Ludvig Holberg, Epistler

“Okay, so I know I’m not the last bookseller. People still sell books. But I’m one of the last of a certain kind of bookseller. The kind that for six hundred years rooted around basements, book bins, and bookstores looking for, sometimes, rare books or, more often, secondhand books. They were the hunter-gatherers of the book business, the travelers and pick-ers, who spent their lives saving books that might otherwise have been lost. They are, now, nearly extinct, driven to ground by the machines—the cell phones, personal computers, and, especially, the internet—that replaced them at the end of the twentieth century.”
― Gary Goodman, The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade