Quotes by : Anne Fadiman

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

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath....

The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be....

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

A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin....

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small,....

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable....

So, if you're a doctor, how can you recognize that you're having a feeling? Some tips from Dr. Zinn:Most....

...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....