Quotes by Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, h — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibil — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. W — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
I have never been able to resist a book about books. — Anne Fadiman, 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 — Anne Fadiman, 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 — Anne Fadiman, 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 — Anne Fadiman, 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. — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
His books commingled democratically, united under the all-inclusive flag of Literature. Some were vertical, some horizon — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
When the corpses of [Sir John] Franklin's officers and crew were later discovered, miles from their ships, the men were — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase. — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions. — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
One of the strongest motivations for rereading is purely selfish: it helps you remember what you used to be like. Open a — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away. — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there? — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep depriv — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader