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    (A couple approaches the desk) BOOKSELLER: Can I help you find something? MAN: Yeah, we're looking for a vocabulary book. It's either called The Soars or The Sars. BOKSELLER: Let me look it up and see what we have. WOMAN: Oh, it's OK; I made a note of the title. (Customer pulls a napkin from her purse and lays it down for the bookseller to read. Written on it is 'The Saurus').

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    And if I had a bookshop of my own? Well, it wouldn't make any money. So I am no help to anyone. But I would set it somewhere with a garden, where light poured in through the windows. Sit in the sun, I'd tell my customers. Open this book. Try it. It won't do any harm, after all, to sit a while and read.

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    And then I kissed you and, for that second, just for that one moment, the whole world and all its bullshit completely disappeared.

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    Art and science are made when people are terrified that they are going to die. (about "Arcadia" by Iain Pears)

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    Bookshop Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?' Customer's friend: 'Jesus.

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    Customer: Forgotten my glasses, could you read the beginning of this book to me to see if I like it?

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    CUSTOMER: I don’t know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook. BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?

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    CUSTOMER: I’m always on night shift at work. BOOKSELLER (jokingly): Is that why you’re buying so many vampire novels? CUSTOMER (seriously): You can never be too prepared.

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    CUSTOMER: I'm looking for a book about the Holocaust; my daughter's very interested in World War II. But I don't want it to be a sad book. BOOKSELLER: ...Not a sad one? CUSTOMER: No. No sad bits at all.

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    CUSTOMER: I read a book in the sixties. I don’t remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it made me laugh. Do you know which one I mean?” ― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

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    Customer: This book has a couple of tears to some of the pages. Me: Yes, unfortunately some of the older books haven’t had as much love as they should have done from previous owners. Customer: So, will you lower the price? It says here it’s £20. Me: I’m sorry but we take into account the condition of the books when we price them; if that book was in a better condition, it would be worth a lot more than £20. Customer: Well, you can’t have taken this tear here into account *points to page* or this one here *points to another page* because my son did those two minutes ago. Me: So, the book is now more damaged than it was before, because of your son? Customer: Yes. Exactly. So will you lower the price?

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    CUSTOMER (to her friend): What's this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain about other books?

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    CUSTOMER (to their friend): God, the Famous Five titles realy were crap, weren’t they? Five Go Camping. Five Go Off in a Caravan.... If it was Five Go Down To a Crack House it might be a bit more exciting.

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    CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?

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    Do you have any old copies of Dickens? Bookseller: We've got a copy of David Copperfield from 1850 for $150. Customer: Why is it so expensive if it's that old?

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    Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.

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    These days, we've got booksellers in cities, in deserts, and in the middle of a rain forest; we've got travelling bookshops, and bookshops underground. We've got bookshops in barns, in caravans and in converted Victorian railway stations. We've even got booksellers selling books in the middle of a war. Are bookshops still relevant? They certainly are. All bookshops are full of stories, and stories want to be heard.

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    They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world - something we all need from time to time. - Cornelia Funke