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Lewis Buzbee, born in 1957, is an American author whose works span various literary genres, including novels, poetry, and drama. Buzbee is beloved by readers for his unique narrative style and profound insights into human nature.

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“For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a few bookstores around the city, and while I've looked at hundreds and hundreds of books in that time, I have not found the one book that will satisfy my urge. 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. I know enough about the course of the disease to know I'll discover something soon.”

Reading Books Hunger Urges Bookstores

Book:The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

Source: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

“It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.”

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Book:The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

Source: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

“No longer a mere facade--a rug or a stall--the bookstore deepened so that it could hold and display the rapidly increasing stock of books and provide backroom space for scribes and their supplies.”

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Book:The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

Source: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Lewis Buzbee

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Born: 1957
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Quotes: 20

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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a HistoryRelated source material

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