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The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

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

When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.

Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.

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

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

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.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf, rifle through the index to see if they're in there.

You can find my book at your favorite bookstore, and if it isn't there, find a new favorite.