Quotes by : Anne Fadiman

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires,....

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh....

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages....

Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that....

Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative....

But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.

...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending....

One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are....

One of the strongest motivations for rereading is purely selfish: it helps you remember what you used....