Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions Of A Common Reader

Quotes

• “It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus...”
• “A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, h...”
• “Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and...”
• “I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and...”
• “In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.”
• “I have never been able to resist a book about books.”