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 1 percent of the books currently in print.
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 …
- 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…
Books were in the world; the world was in books. - Lewis Buzbee
Books were in the world; the world was in books.
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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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