Quotes on Bookstores

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.