Steve Leveen Quotes

• In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.

  Steve Leveen

  Reading, Opportunity, Land

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller.

  Steve Leveen

  Reading, Book, Romantic Love

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.

  Steve Leveen

  Book, Reading, Optimistic

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life, but always be open to serendipity.

  Steve Leveen

  Serendipity, Plans, Feels Right

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• A library is a fueling station for your mind.

  Steve Leveen

  Mind, Library, Stations

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• I’m imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles - we have them in our homes and cherish their light, but don’t light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln’s era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are, and I think it’s likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.

  Steve Leveen

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "Seven Ways Electronic Books Will Make Us Better Readers" by Steve Leveen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.

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• Perspective is a kind of mental sunblock that, provided we apply it properly, prevents us from getting burned by past mistakes.

  Steve Leveen

  Mistake, Past, Perspective

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