Pamela Druckerman Quotes

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

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.

For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.

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

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?

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

One of my favorite stores in the Old Town is Buchbinderei. It's this tiny stationery shop where the owner, Doris Feldman, makes these beautiful hand-bound notebooks I always buy for gifts.

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

Some of my best book recommendations have come from booksellers.

When it comes to birthdays, I think there are two camps. There are people like me, who choose to treat it like any other day, and then there are the 'birthday people.' You know, those people who claim the full month in which they were born as their own.

Women in the U.S. are influenced by the same trends - popular culture, runway trends, etc. - and our hypothesis is that she's quite anxious to be able to buy products in her town that perhaps she hasn't been able to in the past.

The first bookstore I loved wasn't a little independent gem nestled in a neighborhood: it was a modest Waldenbooks in our local shopping mall.

I tell you this: I'm not an outdoorsman. Actually, one of my things is to pick a little corner in Borders or Barnes & Noble and fall back and just read.

Any given day, you'll find me at secondhand bookstores.

Neighborhood restaurants matter.

Every successful high street needs a catalyst that starts making people want to come there, and independent shops can be that catalyst. If you want a new idea on the high street, you'll probably find it in an independent. I know I shouldn't say this, but new ideas rarely happen in chains. What we do is adopt it once we spot it in an independent.

The high street is not a retail thing: it's a social thing, part of the British lifestyle. And I say that as someone who started his life on Limassol high street in Cyprus.

I could live in Target clothes forever.

I shop everywhere. I love to shop online.Ebay is like heaven for me.

The Hester Street Fair is kind of like a tiny baby DailyCandy market every week in the Lower East Side.

If you're struggling for gift ideas, my advice is to give experiences rather than things.

I find booksellers comforting - they're my people.

In my hometown, I know everybody.

The thought of buying a gift and wrapping is too much of an effort for me.