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; it isn't very messy and rarely makes a noise. A book can be read over and… — 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 idleness and hush of the hour gather everything close, the shelves and the books and the few other customers who graze head-bent in the narrow aisles. There's a clerk at the counter who stares out 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 Image
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 Image
“It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.” — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
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 them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear… — 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 Image
"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 mention the shelves of books in the living room I’ve been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated… — 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 Image
“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 Image
