{"quotes":[{"text":"The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers!","author":"Ashwin Sanghi","tags":["attention-span","bookstores","reading","writers"],"id":24542,"author_id":"Ashwin+Sanghi"},{"text":"The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["ambition","beleive-and-you-shall-receive","books","books","bookshelves","bookstores","christian","determined-spirit","educational-philosophy","educational","inspirational-life","inspirational","learner","learning-process","learning","library","library-books","lifelong-education","lifelong-learner","motivation","optimism","pleasure","read","read-and-write","readers","reading","self-help","solitude","student","uplifting","wisdo","wise-wise-words","writers"],"id":25438,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in tow ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.","author":"Italo Calvino","tags":["bookstores","literature","postmodernism","reading"],"id":26001,"author_id":"Italo+Calvino"},{"text":"The replacement of independent bookstores by firms such as Barnes \u0026 Noble, Waterstones or Borders superficially provided a wide range of reading, but their policies further limited choice.","author":"Sara Ayad","tags":["books","bookstores","limitations"],"id":27026,"author_id":"Sara+Ayad"},{"text":"Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had undergone a significant transformation or vanished: Cody’s in Berkeley, seven branch libraries in Philadelphia, twelve of the fourteen bookstores in Harvard Square, Harry W. Schwartz in Milwaukee and, in my own hometown of Washington, D.C., Olsson’s and Chapters.","author":"Azar Nafisi","tags":["america","bookstores","publishing","reading"],"id":35794,"author_id":"Azar+Nafisi"},{"text":"I am happy to have all the books I need to read.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["book","book-lover","bookshelves","bookstores","education","happiness","knowledge","learning","learning-process","library","lifelong-learner","positive-thinking","read","self-development","self-improvement","self-motivation","thankful"],"id":35831,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.","author":"Roger Ebert","tags":["books","bookstores","history","literature","philosophy","reading","science","self-help","thinking"],"id":37181,"author_id":"Roger+Ebert"},{"text":"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.","author":"S.A. Tawks","tags":["bookstores","ereaders-ebooks","fiction","reading"],"id":38576,"author_id":"S.A.+Tawks"},{"text":"If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.","author":"R. Albert Mohler Jr.","tags":["books","bookstores","college"],"id":42092,"author_id":"R.+Albert+Mohler+Jr."},{"text":"Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged.","author":"Kerry E. Wagner","tags":["attitude","best-ever","book-clubs","books","bookstores","encouragement","face-book","inspirational","kerry-e-wagner","oprah-winfrey-favorite","perspectives","quotes","steve-harvey","twitter","tyler-perry"],"id":44981,"author_id":"Kerry+E.+Wagner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}