Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadimanis an American essayist and reporter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 August 1953
CountryUnited States of America
book water settling
I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
book worry thank-god
Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.
reading mean cutting
Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.
book able
I have never been able to resist a book about books.
book stories shelves
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.
weather interesting borders
I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.
drug doubt influence
Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.
reality views
Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
long library belief
It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.
children book thinking
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.
sleep cat bookstores
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...
book views caviar
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
daughter children book
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.
book sleep writing
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.