Independent Bookstores Quotes & Sayings

The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to write - and many of the people who do write - get lost. — Ann Patchett

I watched you. From the moment you walked in that bar, I saw you. Amongst all the shallow and the fake, you looked like sping, and then you got close and I was right because you smelled like jasmine. When you turned around to leave I thought I was wrong because why did someone as sweet as spring think that life wasn't meant for her? There was no light in your eyes, and somehow, even though I barely knew you, it left an ache in my chest. How could I let you walk away? — Kate McCarthy

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books? — Lisa Jackson

I've never considered myself to be working for a living; I've enjoyed myself for a living instead. — John Mills

Acknowledgements
With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers. — Gail Carriger

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence. — Isamu Noguchi

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

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business. — John Wooden

Gawaine and Gareth took turns with the fat ass, one of them whacking it while the other rode bareback. — T.H. White

I wouldn't have a career if it weren't for independent bookstores. — John Green

The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore. — Bill Ayers

I'm a big vinyl listener, I'm a big audiophile. I have a really nice stereo set up at home with a hi-fi and really nice turntable and it's a big deal to me to listen to music in it's purest form like that. — Butch Walker

Control what you can, but flow with what you can't. — Alan Cohen

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable. — John Green