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Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

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

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

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

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

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to 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 am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.