Authors — Quotes

Anne Fadiman Quotes: 8

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.
I have never been able to resist a book about books.
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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 her fingerprints all over them.
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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 refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays
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 plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader