Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.
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 does nothing to rob th… - Lewis Buzbee
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 does nothing to rob th…
- Lewis Buzbee
The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged. - Lewis Buzbee
The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.
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 memories of where we w… - Lewis Buzbee
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 memories of where we w…
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 … - Lewis Buzbee
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 …
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 our fleshed-out inne… - Lewis Buzbee
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 our fleshed-out inne…
Books were in the world; the world was in books. - Lewis Buzbee
Books were in the world; the world was in books.
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 as o… - Lewis Buzbee
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 as o…
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 of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of… - Lewis Buzbee
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 of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of…
"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… - Lewis Buzbee
"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…
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