Writer Quotes by Anne Fadiman

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

— Anne Fadiman

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

— Anne Fadiman

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on…

— Anne Fadiman

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages…

— Anne Fadiman

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange…

— Anne Fadiman

...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single…

— Anne Fadiman

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to…

— Anne Fadiman

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

— Anne Fadiman

When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

— Anne Fadiman

The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to…

— Anne Fadiman

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices,…

— Anne Fadiman

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of…

— Anne Fadiman

“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

When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer…

— Anne Fadiman

I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book -…

— Anne Fadiman

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated…

— Anne Fadiman

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

“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

Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful…

— Anne Fadiman