"My daughter is seven, and some of the……" — 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 their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading."
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36 Quotes by Anne Fadiman
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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to…
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh…
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa,…
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback,…
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