After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.

Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.

I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.