Anne Fadiman: Booking

Anne Fadiman is American essayist, journalist and magazine editor. Explore interesting quotes on booking.
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“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
Love , Books , Sleep , Reading

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

Anne Fadiman

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Books

“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 , Way , Thinking

“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

Life , Books

“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

Books , Time

“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

Books

“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

Books , Literature