Anne Fadiman Quotes

I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.

Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.

'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

I love 'Year One.' I read 'Year One' over and over again.

I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.

At least let us have healthy books.

You mean, like a book?

Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.