“His books commingled democratically, united under the all-inclusive flag of Literature. Some were vertical, some horizontal, and some actually placed behind others.… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“When the corpses of [Sir John] Franklin's officers and crew were later discovered, miles from their ships, the men were found to… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book -… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“[T]here is a certain kind of child who awakens from a book as from an abyssal sleep, swimming heavily up through layers… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“It's not that I think that computers don't have their place, but surely their place is not in bed, which is my… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“He simply could not imagine a time when being a Jew, or even a half Jew, was not a disability.” — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining room, the… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“His books commingled democratically, united under the all-inclusive flag of Literature. Some were vertical, some horizontal, and some actually placed behind others. Mine were… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass. The floor was dirt, but it was clean. Her mother, Foua, sprinkled… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool,… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to find a… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Going through a dead parent's memorabilia is a hazardous undertaking; there is a fine line between pleasure and pain.” — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“He was constantly, pathologically, insanely busy. That’s how he afforded the wine.” — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Benjamin Franklin wrote that he would like to be embalmed in a cask of Madeira” — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
