Lewis Buzbee Quotes

• 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.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Age, Littles

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• How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Pages, Wildflowers

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• ‎"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 the living room I’ve been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that’s afflicted me most of my life.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Perfectly Good, Long Ago

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• 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 isn't very messy and rarely makes a noise. A book can be read over and over, then passed on to friends, or resold at a garage sale. A book will not crash or freeze and will still work when filled with sand. Even if it falls into the bath, it can be dried out and finished. Books require no special training to operate.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Fall, Training

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• 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 of visiting an earlier self.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Self, Years, Rereading

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• 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 the words of their power. A film presents images; a book creates images inside the reader, with the reader’s active participation. Books are good for your brain.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Reading, Air

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• I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Bookstores

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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 all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Home, Emotional

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• Books were in the world; the world was in books.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, World

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• 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 a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Beautiful, Book, Journey

  Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.226, Macmillan

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• 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 one genius speaking to another.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Solitude, Connections

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• 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 inner selves reside.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Self, Cities

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• 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 were and who we were when we were reading them; to remember a book is to remember the child who read that book.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Children, Memories, Book

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• Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Written

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• The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Allies, Bookstores, Limits

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• Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Silly, Maturity, Craving

  Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.302, Macmillan

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