Judging a Book by Its Lover Quotes

“Ask anyone with a big book collection, and they'll tell you moving them was the hardest part of the move. Take down a bookshelf and there's often no less than four, possibly up to eight, good Lord if it's over ten, boxes of dense material. This is the single greatest argument for welcoming ebooks. Abandoning print and having your Kindle on display instead doesn't sound like such a bad idea while carrying book box number seven to the car.”
― Lauren Leto, Judging a Book by Its Lover

“The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your shelf. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm.”
― Lauren Leto, Judging a Book by Its Lover

“Bookstores contain the residue of thousands of people who went in there to find an experience, a narrative that guided them to a new place or reinforced what they were doing.”
― Lauren Leto, Judging a Book by Its Lover

“All fathers who don't read like Guy Fieri.”
― Lauren Leto, Judging a Book by Its Lover

“Starbucks and their ilk are for meeting with people you don't care to meet with and finishing term papers.”
― Lauren Leto, Judging a Book by Its Lover

“Considering yourself a serious reader doesn’t mean you can’t read light books. Loving to read means you sometimes like to turn your head”
― Lauren Leto, Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere

“What Your Child Will Grow Up to Be If You Read Them…”
― Lauren Leto, Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere

“Considering yourself a serious reader doesn’t mean you can’t read light books. Loving to read means you sometimes like to turn your head off.”
― Lauren Leto, Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere

“At these moments I need my reading easy and quick; I need to turn the pages without knowing it. I don’t have the bandwidth to wonder about the underlying meaning of the exact word chosen to phrase how one turned around or analyze just why an object was described in a certain”
― Lauren Leto, Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere

“If you tell an eight-year-old she has a talent for something, she'll never give it a rest.”
― Lauren Leto, Judging a Book by Its Lover