Book Shopping Quotes

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

I fall for all those lists of 100 books you must read, and go out and buy most of them.

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?

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal can get published, I can get published.'

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

You can find my book at your favorite bookstore, and if it isn't there, find a new favorite.

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

Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

I go into a book store and start having heart palpitations. I get very excited.

When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.

My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

I buy way too many books.

Buying books is probably my biggest vice when I travel.

I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.

I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.

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.

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.