Independent Booksellers Quotes & Sayings

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back. — Carolyn Kizer

I wasn't sure if seeing Abby hurt would ever make me feel anything less than a little crazy, but she didn't need a hotheaded boyfriend. She needed an understanding husband. — Jamie McGuire

You know, I believe that people need to find what they love to do most in the world, what they're best at, and then they need to use that ability to make the world better. — Jessica Warman

I've always looked at independent booksellers in a romantic light. — Pierce Brown

He wanted revenge and I knew he would not stop until he got it. I had to hope he would run out of fuel. — Brenda Perlin

My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with whatever guns and bombs and what not they could get their hands on, and just would fight Nazis, and try to help people escape. — Margaret D. Klein

The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked independent booksellers in major towns and cities supplemented by thousands of smaller shops that carried limited stocks of mostly current titles along with greeting cards, toys and so on. — Jason Epstein

Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite. — John Szarkowski

Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life! — David Gray

Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish. — Ashley Jensen

Skylar todl you to come here?" I asked dumbly.
"No," Bethany said. "Skylar told me not to come here. Same dif. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

For every second you thought you wouldn't make it.
For every second you didn't want to make it.
You made it.
Thank you for existing (so beautifully). — Darshana Suresh

This is part of what it means to be a God, that You are a general principal of Being, instantiated throughout all of Being. — Sam Webster

You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words. — Zig Ziglar