Bookstores Writing Quotes

“How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Just handling this ocean of different books—new and used, in and out of print, famous and forgotten—it was literature as this giant mosaic of texts and experiments and attitudes. I think it’s just very liberating to break out of a great man’s theory of history.

I guess I’ve always liked working from that sense of—what would you call it?—license that the margins permit. I always just visualize myself writing books that were meant one day to be dusty, forgotten volumes being encountered by intrepid browsers in a used bookstore. It was a much less freighted way to think about trying to enter the conversation than to imagine I had to write The Great Gatsby.”
― Jonathan Lethem

“There are stores that enrich the streets with their presence, and the most precious of them are the shops that sells old books!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Elle avait pris l’habitude de laisser la porte entrouverte afin que l’air humide de l’automne se mêle au parfum des livres. Elle avait toujours pensé que l’air automnal et les livres allaient bien ensemble, que les uns comme les autres se mariaient bien avec des plaids, des fauteuils confortables et de grandes tasses de café ou de thé.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend