Lewis Buzbee Quotes

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• 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…
• Books were in the world; the world was in books.
• I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.
• Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly…
• Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to…
• Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where…
• 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 way…
• Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.
• The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.
• 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…
• Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.
• The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the…
• ‎"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…
• If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total…
• A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But…
• How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

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