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…

- Anne Fadiman

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

- Anne Fadiman

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

- Anne Fadiman

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, intern…

- Anne Fadiman

When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer in…

- Anne Fadiman

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

- Anne Fadiman

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

- Anne Fadiman

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 …

- Anne Fadiman

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

- Anne Fadiman