thatbooksmell:

These are just a few samples of 10 Unconventional Bookstores For Your Browsing Pleasure, including a book barge, an antique book mill and a modern children’s bookstore with rainbow rivers on the ceiling!!

Article linked above written by Emily Temple for Flavorwire.

The most important person in a novel is the reader. Then the characters. Then the world in which they operate. Then the unstated beliefs that are behind everything that happens in a novel. And then, maybe, just maybe, on the caboose of that wrecking train, comes the writer.
Craig Nova

littledallilasbookshelf:

Acqua Alta Bookstore, Venice, Itlay

All the books are kept in boats so that in the time of high tides they can be dry :)

Indeed.

Indeed.

ebookfriendly: Children are made readers / a beautiful poster from Etsy http://ebks.to/137rYcK Indeed.

ebookfriendly:

Children are made readers / a beautiful poster from Etsy http://ebks.to/137rYcK

Indeed.

ebookfriendly

Immigration is one reason this country exists. It’s the main reason this country thrived when it did. Stop immigration and you’ll stop progress.

Immigration is one reason this country exists. It’s the main reason this country thrived when it did. Stop immigration and you’ll stop progress.

wearetheamericanway

One always has a better book in one’s mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
Michael Cunningham
 by Eryl Shields

 by Eryl Shields

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
“Imagine a good gambler who is playing an important poker hand, the way he lays his cards down makes all the difference. With a certain number of cards, a certain number of the enemy are falling off their chairs, so the sequence of the cards can often determine who wins the hands. A writer needs to play his hand very carefully; he doesn’t need to play fifty-two card pickup with the reader and throw the whole deck in his face just because he’s got control of the deck. That’s not playing cards at all.” —Thomas McGuane From The Paris Review: Thomas McGuane, The Art of Fiction No. 89

“Imagine a good gambler who is playing an important poker hand, the way he lays his cards down makes all the difference. With a certain number of cards, a certain number of the enemy are falling off their chairs, so the sequence of the cards can often determine who wins the hands. A writer needs to play his hand very carefully; he doesn’t need to play fifty-two card pickup with the reader and throw the whole deck in his face just because he’s got control of the deck. That’s not playing cards at all.” —Thomas McGuane

From The Paris Review: Thomas McGuane, The Art of Fiction No. 89

Holy shit, I’ve got to see this documentary. This looks awesome.

Nice office/personal library

Nice office/personal library

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

George W. Bush

[I’m not sure whether I ought to laugh or cry after reading this quote.]

littledallilasbookshelf:

The Elliott Bay Book Co., Seattle

Support your local bookstore.

tranquiloyemocionante:

Shakespeare bookstore. Prague, 2013.