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. Paul Krugman
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
Imagine the books burning. And tapes and films and files, radios and televisions, will all go into that same bonfire. All those libraries and bookstores blazing away in the night. People will attack microwave relay stations. People with axes will chop every fiber-optic cable. Chuck Palahniuk
People don't seem to rob bookstores much, more's the pity for them. Sheri S. Tepper
Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play. John Updike
Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. Barbara Taylor Bradford