All Anne Fadiman Quotes
- Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do… Amazing
- I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown… All
- For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me. Enlarging
- Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself. Inspirational
- It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather. Assume
- If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone Alone
- One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer. Belongs
- Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,… Ascribing
- In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. Book
- Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our… Accumulated
- It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest… Been
- A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in… Baby
- I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo. Fate
- Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. Bereavement
- I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get… All
- My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their… Able
- 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… Apartment
- Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase. Aloud
- I have never been able to resist a book about books. Able
- One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that… Children