Design Feast Series: Quotes

“In a smaller store … you are the person making the choices to get really good books. You are the one who, by your intelligent ordering and good reading, is sort of cutting through a lot of the junk and bringing books that people really want to read. …We’ve all had the experience of going into a three-story Barnes & Noble and saying, ‘I didn’t really find anything I wanted read.’ But you can go in to a small store with an intelligent staff …[and] well-displayed, well-chosen books, and come out with five books that you’re dying to read. And that’s what we’re going to do.”

Ann Patchett, Author and Co-Owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville