“For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged. — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“November, a dark, rainy Tuesday afternoon. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. The shortened light of the afternoon and the… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share
The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share
“It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.” — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share
I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share
If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share
"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share
Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share
“For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a few bookstores… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share
The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require fuel, food, or service;… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share
A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning.… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share
Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly. — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share
