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?
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Related It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mo... CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign hi... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his bo... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI It is far better to love books & don't accumulate any degree, than to accumulate mountains of degree... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. BRUCE FEILER Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have... SARAH REES BRENNAN It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love ... JAMI ATTENBERG Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping mad... STEPHEN KING I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more will... CAROLINE LEAVITT [Jackson said he has a] love-hate ... I love it when he makes plays, hate it when he makes mistakes. SEAN TAYLOR I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservativ... ADAM RAPP It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don&... MEG ROSOFF I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it... DAMON LINDELOF I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more... MARY ANN SHAFFER Looked from different aspects hate just cause more problems it doesn't solve. I hate dogs, I hate bl... DEYTH BANGER To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is mor... ALBER ELBAZ Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my n... LAUREN CONRAD I think it's cool people love to hate me. CARICE VAN HOUTEN I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelme... CHETAN BHAGAT Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00... ANTHONY BURGESS People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometim... PETER SIS When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When ... GEORGE CLINTON Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate. JOYCE CAROL OATES We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassio... ADAM RAYNER Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I cou... KATE KLISE I love to read. I have a Kindle, and it's nice to be able to download books that people refer. KELLAN LUTZ Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,... LOIS HOROWITZ Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that the... HANYA YANAGIHARA I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either lov... EMINEM Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have visio... JOE QUEENAN The independent bookstores that are left have learned how to compete in this marketplace. There are ... HUT LANDON Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people ... JOSH LIEB Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, d... NICHOLSON BAKER There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not. ELLEN HOPKINS There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas... MICHAEL MORPURGO Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their... P. J. O'ROURKE I believe that people with a sense of humor are the reason that there are emo kids, its kinda like t... NICHOLAS RYAN LAYMON I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth... PATRICIA REILLY GIFF I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They ha... WILLIAM E. SIMON I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt ... HELENE HANFF Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything,... ZAC BROWN If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in ... MAEVE BINCHY People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I ... KARL LAGERFELD If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and... CRISS JAMI There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that. FEDE ALVAREZ There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. IRVING STONE I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art. DAVE HICKEY There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's ... CRISTIANO RONALDO There's a stigma that guys hate romance and hate love, but that's not true. Look at 'Iro... CASSANDRA CLARE If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's ... NANCY GARDEN I hate the stereotype that women who fight are 'butch' or 'wannabe men.' It's ni... MIESHA TATE Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and hap... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find t... DAVID EAGLEMAN I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books h... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Profitable bookstores sell books. Unprofitable book sellers store books. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan ... JEFF LEMIRE I'm a love-it-or-hate-it person. I don't waffle. MINDY GROSSMAN People hate me for whatever reasons they come up with, or they hate me because their friends said th... RYAN SHECKLER It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as suc... IRVINE WELSH Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their ow... LADY GAGA I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours sho... JOHN GREEN I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, act... ELIZABETH GILBERT People love to hate. I have a love-hate relationship with the world. The world loves to hate me. ANDY DICK Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so... CORY DOCTOROW Trump can be damned to all hell with his enclosed little world in which no thought is possible. But ... HOWARD JACOBSON I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some r... JOANNA LUMLEY People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different ... HEATHER MILLS Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better ... H.G. WELLS Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate... EDEN AHBEZ I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers. JACK DEE With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a ... JIM RASH I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin... GEORGE BURNS I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin... GEORGE F. BURNS I normally hate books that have anything to do with medicine, thanks to my own background in nursing... SHILOH WALKER What anger worse or slower to abate than lovers love when it turns to hate. EURIPIDES Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it. BILL AYERS Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it... MANIKA I've got a big, long list of stuff you're entitled to hate about my books. JIM CRACE In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting... CHRIS KYLE I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a ... DANIEL HANDLER While our customers' needs are met online by the people who do it better than anyone else, we will p... GREG JOSEFOWICZ It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time. Not as though we... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's fu... DEMETRI MARTIN The more people love you, the more there's going to be people that hate you. KYLIE JENNER I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it'... SHARON VAN ETTEN There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha... TATIANA DE ROSNAY Some of [my books] are expensive. I usually get book vouchers from my loans and use that money to bu... JAMES DEMPSEY One of the things I've learned from 'Borgen' is that it's very easy to criticise peo... PILOU ASBAEK 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. ... RACHEL BLOOM That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into i... TODD MCFARLANE What I most hate is the books and films and all other stuff which all the time end in happy end, do ... DEYTH BANGER I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! TOM LEHRER Hidden love is better than open hate. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a l... EDDIE REDMAYNE Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top. 50 CENT What television gets to do, and there's a reason why 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' works as well as it ... JEFFREY BELL We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house... and through books, through infor... JOHN LEWIS
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LISA KUDROW There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically... LISA UNGER Fact: I don't know of a single girl who doesn't wish the show-it-all boxer-shorts phenomenon would g... LISA SAMSON The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because i... LISA KRISTINE I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky. LISA MCMANN She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she c... LISA ZARAN I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate ... LISA BONET People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously unders... LISA RANDALL I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna... LISA BEDRICK There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ... LISA LOEB My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being ov... LISA TUTTLE Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a write... LISA LUTZ I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of ... LISA LOEB Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspe... LISA RANDALL Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came fro... LISA MURKOWSKI I think it's fair to say that women have a different level of intuitiveness that allows them to ... LISA MURKOWSKI The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so th... LISA KLEYPAS Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoo... LISA KLEYPAS Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention... LISA LUTZ Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important. -Lisa Hoffman. LISA HOFFMAN Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. LISA HOFFMAN The Beslan Mothers are becoming more and more empowered with time passing, ... The meeting is a very... LISA ARONSON Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we ca... LISA ARONSON They stay in their homes, ... There is a lot of suspicion. Fifty percent of the children that were h... LISA ARONSON Although they are at different skill levels, working with a traumatized and bereaved population was ... LISA ARONSON It was impressive seeing how this NGO operated, ... It really operates like an excellent family orga... LISA ARONSON When there is deliberate, intentional violence by man against man, very particular feelings are gene... LISA ARONSON We didn't understand why they were waiting. LISA ANTONELLI The reason we did this was to make sure he would be taken care of, no matter what happened to us. LISA ANTONELLI