Hi, readers,
For many years I've been collecting literary quotes to amuse myself. From time to time I'll be posting a few of them for your enjoyment. Feel free to pass them on.
I'll start with one of my favorites, which I take to heart. I was fortunate enough to meet and visit with Bookseller Brent in his Chicago shop in 1994.
* "I had decided to become a bookseller because I loved good books. I assumed there must be many others who shared a love for reading and that I could minister to their needs. I thought of this as a calling." - Stuart Brent, "The Seven Stairs" (1962)
* "All good and true book-lovers practise the pleasing and improving art of reading in bed." - Eugene Field, "Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac" (1896)
* "Almost everyone who reads has been seduced by the charm of a good bookstore." - Frank Brady and Joan Lawless, "Brady & Lawless's Favorite Bookstores" (1978)
* "Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at times when they need them." - Erica Jong
* "I was born in a bookshop or so close to it as to be able to claim the distinction. It was in a bookshop that I first learned the odor of books...and felt the first vague stirrings of envy, admiration and authorship. If I were not a writer of books, I would be a bookseller, selling the dreams and solutions of other writers across the counter. Books to me are the most important things after food, water, dogs, cats, girls." - Vincent Starret, "Born in a Bookshop" (1965)
* "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
* "I am a bookseller...I stand and look down the little avenue of books which is my shop. On each side there are shelves and on these shelves are my books. All day long, I live my life between these two parallel lines, which I know may be extended into infinity, and I am buttressed by those protecting walls." - Will Y. Darling, "The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller" (1931)
For many years I've been collecting literary quotes to amuse myself. From time to time I'll be posting a few of them for your enjoyment. Feel free to pass them on.
I'll start with one of my favorites, which I take to heart. I was fortunate enough to meet and visit with Bookseller Brent in his Chicago shop in 1994.
* "I had decided to become a bookseller because I loved good books. I assumed there must be many others who shared a love for reading and that I could minister to their needs. I thought of this as a calling." - Stuart Brent, "The Seven Stairs" (1962)
* "All good and true book-lovers practise the pleasing and improving art of reading in bed." - Eugene Field, "Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac" (1896)
* "Almost everyone who reads has been seduced by the charm of a good bookstore." - Frank Brady and Joan Lawless, "Brady & Lawless's Favorite Bookstores" (1978)
* "Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at times when they need them." - Erica Jong
* "I was born in a bookshop or so close to it as to be able to claim the distinction. It was in a bookshop that I first learned the odor of books...and felt the first vague stirrings of envy, admiration and authorship. If I were not a writer of books, I would be a bookseller, selling the dreams and solutions of other writers across the counter. Books to me are the most important things after food, water, dogs, cats, girls." - Vincent Starret, "Born in a Bookshop" (1965)
* "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
* "I am a bookseller...I stand and look down the little avenue of books which is my shop. On each side there are shelves and on these shelves are my books. All day long, I live my life between these two parallel lines, which I know may be extended into infinity, and I am buttressed by those protecting walls." - Will Y. Darling, "The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller" (1931)
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