Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.
Lewis BuzbeeThe bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.
Lewis BuzbeeIf 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 BuzbeeBooks, 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