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Penbereavement is a serious matter. Anne Fadiman Writers 84
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 Literature 73
In my view nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. Anne Fadiman Book 53
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 Story 44
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 Kids 40
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 Child 33
Reading aloud means no skipping no skimming no cutting to the chase. Anne Fadiman Reading 33
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 Parents 33
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 Reading 32
It has long been my belief that everyones 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. Anne Fadiman Readers 28
I have never been able to resist a book about books. Anne Fadiman Book 27

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