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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.

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

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.

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

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.