Lisa Jackson Quotes

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.

The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.

I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.

It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that is all I really need to know. If they are friendly to me, then we are clearly soul mates.

Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure it's a smooth transition. I believe we still need places where people can go to handle, hold and talk about books, get information about what books are out there, and so on.

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

I suppose I'm an obsessive reader. If I could make a living reading the books I want to read and then telling people about them, I'd pick that over acting.

Always, always, always pass a good book along on to somebody else.

Some of my best book recommendations have come from booksellers.

I can't tell you how excited I was when I joined my first book club, but I can tell you how much I immediately regretted it.

Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Excitement fills the air. Every reading is crowded; every print run is sold.

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