Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions Of A Common Reader Quotes
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
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.
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.
Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.
I have never been able to resist a book about books.
I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.
You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?
...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment.
