Anne Fadiman: Quotes about books

Anne Fadiman is American essayist, journalist and magazine editor. Explore interesting quotes on books.

Anne Fadiman: 22 quotes0 likes

“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.”

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

Source: 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 get her fingerprints all over them.”

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.”

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.”

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“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.”

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.”

Source: At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays