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“ 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. ”

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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.

~ Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman Hume Philosophy

Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.

~ Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman Imagination Muses Paper Pen Writer Writing

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

~ Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman Humor Pen Pens Writers 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.

~ Anne Fadiman

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