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Top 15 Lewis Buzbee Quotes (2025 Update)

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.”

5. “Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.”

— Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?”

6. “How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?”

— Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.”

7. “I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.”

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Lewis Buzbee Quote: “The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.”

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

— Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “Maturity and experience shouldn’t stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.”

9. “Maturity and experience shouldn’t stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.”

— Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “The technology of the book is much more flexible than film, more user friendly. The reader can dip into the book at will, without electricity, and is always aware of where she is in the book, halfway through, a third of the way, mere pages from the end, her fingers helping to measure the excitement of coming to the conclusion.”

11. “The technology of the book is much more flexible than film, more user friendly. The reader can dip into the book at will, without electricity, and is always aware of where she is in the book, halfway through, a third of the way, mere pages from the end, her fingers helping to measure the excitement of coming to the conclusion.”

— Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “Books were in the world; the world was in books.”

12. “Books were in the world; the world was in books.”

— Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “Americans... publish more books than any other country, but the per capita figure is surprisingly low. Of the English-speaking nations, the United States comes in fifth, behind the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. The United Kingdom publishes 2,336 books per person, the United States 545.”

13. “Americans... publish more books than any other country, but the per capita figure is surprisingly low. Of the English-speaking nations, the United States comes in fifth, behind the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. The United Kingdom publishes 2,336 books per person, the United States 545.”

— Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “Even a paperback printed on acidic paper, whose pages have yellowed ten years on, can still be read, no matter how badly the spine is cracked or how inflated it’s become from being dropped in the bathtub. The pages might separate from the spine, but a rubber band can keep them together. You may loan a book to your circle of closest friends, but shoes are another matter. A great book will never go out of style – books go with every outfit.”

14. “Even a paperback printed on acidic paper, whose pages have yellowed ten years on, can still be read, no matter how badly the spine is cracked or how inflated it’s become from being dropped in the bathtub. The pages might separate from the spine, but a rubber band can keep them together. You may loan a book to your circle of closest friends, but shoes are another matter. A great book will never go out of style – books go with every outfit.”

— Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “We are much more likely to be drawn to a messy bookstore than a neat one because the mess signifies vitality. We are not drawn to a bookstore because of tasteful, Finnish shelves in gunmetal gray mesh, each one displaying three carefully chosen, color-coordinated covers. Clutter – orderly clutter, if possible – is what we expect. Like a city. It’s not quite a city unless there’s more than enough.”

15. “We are much more likely to be drawn to a messy bookstore than a neat one because the mess signifies vitality. We are not drawn to a bookstore because of tasteful, Finnish shelves in gunmetal gray mesh, each one displaying three carefully chosen, color-coordinated covers. Clutter – orderly clutter, if possible – is what we expect. Like a city. It’s not quite a city unless there’s more than enough.”

— Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee Quote: “My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I’d search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel.”

16. “My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I’d search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel.”

— Lewis Buzbee

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