"I'd rather have a book, but in a……" — Anne Fadiman

"I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions."

— Anne Fadiman

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36 Quotes by Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that…
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to…
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well…
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to…
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh…
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa,…
It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious…
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback,…

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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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