Writer Quotes by Clifton Fadiman

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

— Clifton Fadiman

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

— Clifton Fadiman

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

— Clifton Fadiman

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient…

— Clifton Fadiman

Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make…

— Clifton Fadiman

Wine is a civilizing agent.

— Clifton Fadiman

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there…

— Clifton Fadiman

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

— Clifton Fadiman

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

— Clifton Fadiman

“Don't be afraid of poetry.”

— Clifton Fadiman

Being a child is in itself a profession.

— Clifton Fadiman

Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup…

— Clifton Fadiman

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

— Clifton Fadiman

To feel at home, stay at home.

— Clifton Fadiman

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their…

— Clifton Fadiman