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Anne Fadiman is an American essayist and reporter.

Her interests include literary journalism, essays, memoir, and autobiography.

✵ 7. August 1953
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Famous Anne Fadiman Quotes

“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.”

Anne Fadiman

“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.”

Anne Fadiman

Source: 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.”

Anne Fadiman

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“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 the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.”

Anne Fadiman

“To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.”

Anne Fadiman

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.”

Anne Fadiman

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos…”

Anne Fadiman

Source: 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 and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.”

Anne Fadiman

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Anne Fadiman Quotes about books

“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”

Anne Fadiman

Source: 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

Source: 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.”

Anne Fadiman

Source: At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

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