3 Quotes & Sayings By Tom Raabe

Tom Raabe is the bestselling author of more than 60 books including the #1 bestseller, The New York Times Bestsellers, America’s War (with his father, CBS News correspondent Mike Raab), and the National Book Award finalist, The Great Alone (with his sister, Karen). He has also written for the New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Details, GQ, The Financial Times of London, and Rolling Stone. He has covered foreign policy for Newsweek and Washington Post. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

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We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring. Tom Raabe
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Indeed, there is something about reading in a restaurant that is borderline romantic. Leaning back in that corner booth, an evocative title in our hands, a stale cup of java in front of us, every so often bolting forward to jot a phrase onto the napkin, we look like, well, poets-unknown belletrists scraping through the hardscrabble years and awaiting the distinction that is imminent. the waiter of waitress refills our cup, we drop a memorable apothegm or two, share a laugh fraught with meaning, scope out the joint, and return to our tome. Nonbiblioholics strain to espy our title; conversation is struck up on things Kafkaesque and Kierkegaardian; and we forge a genuine biblioholic simpatico with all around. . Tom Raabe