“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not read, believing that one’s personal trove should contain as much of what you don’t know as possible. Some” — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“When I come home and look back through my Book of Books I see a personal narrative I didn’t recognize at the time. I… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“When I look through Bob, the actual stories between his mottled covers may have been written by others, but they belong to me now.… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“I went from escaping into books to extracting things from them, from being inspired by books to trying to do things that inspired me—many… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final chapters approach,… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“At this point, there is no human way that I could read even those books I've deliberately marked as absolute must-reads. [ . .… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“At the office I worked in before that, my required all employees to take a personality test that divided us neatly into one of… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“For a girl who often felt like she lived more in the cozy world of books than in the unforgiving world of the playground,… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.” — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto,… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“To quote Virginia Woolf, “If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
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