Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

I've always wanted to buy a bookstore. You know, sell some of those muffins and a little coffee. I don't care if we make any money. I don't want to lose a lot of money, but we could visit with people and get books.

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.

My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.

I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.

It's a great meeting place, community center, art gallery, singles bar, music venue. The record store really covers a lot of ground.

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.

I know Australians are no strangers to pubs, but in the U.K., the pub is a real meeting place because the houses can be quite small, so the pub is an extension of the living space.

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.

One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic posture, the fact that we are here for Everyman, that we are indeed Everyman's university, the place where the scholar who is not college-affiliated can come and work and feel at home.

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

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

And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.