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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

~Adam Gopnik

Topics: Additional Bookstores Interest Sections Stuff

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I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

~Al Yankovic

Topics: Around Back Bookstores Come Fan Find Huge Huge Fan Issue Issues Life Mad Magazine My Life New Old Out Trying Used Wait Years

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The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

~Anita Diament

Topics: Book Bookstores Church Churches College Come Couple Groups Had Me Ministers More More People People Spoke State Up

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Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Book Bookstores Century Comic Comic Book Fate Including Many Meeting Other Popular Radio Record Shack Stores Twentieth Twentieth Century Video Were Wildly

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Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: About Bookstores Carried Christian Christians Down Evangelical How How Much Jesus Love Much Sit Talk I Can

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The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: Adventure Bookstores Business Crisis Even Film Focus Going Just Longer Many Narrative Narratives Now Out People Reason States Unless Ways Why

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I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.

~Barry Eisler

Topics: Allure Big Book Book Tour Bookstores Imprint List New New York New York Times Seeing Shot Six Times Tour Understand York Your I Can

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As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: Across Books Bookstores Came Comic Comics Early Edward Fit How Kid Know Like Me Newspaper Objects Really Small Things Unusual Were World I Came

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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.

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: About Books Bookstores Community Delight Feel Indie Infectious Just Known Love Much Readers Something Store Walk Where Writers You

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Every single day, authors read at bookstores and libraries - and coffeeshops and bars - all over the country. And these readings are amazing: you get to hear the book in the author's own voice, ask questions, and meet the writer. For free.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Amazing Ask Author Authors Bars Book Bookstores Country Day Every Every Single Day Free Get Hear Libraries Meet Over Own Questions Read Readings Single Single Day Voice Writer You

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