“My sort wants the book in its entirety. We need to touch it, to examine the weight of its paper and the way text is laid out on the page. People like me open books and inhale the binding, favoring… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“You should read this book’ almost never simply means you should read this book. It is usually far more fraught. Telling someone what to… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“When we read, we are spying on someone else’s imagination and inhabiting it; the authors and their characters are momentarily our friends, even if… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
