Anne Waldman Quotes

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

May books spread the world over!

Books do furnish a room.

I love my books.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

Books are feeders of brothels.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

I absolutely love reading.

I would always read a lot.

One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.

You can't write if you don't read.

A library is thought in cold storage.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

A library implies an act of faith.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

Reading is a huge part of life.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Man is what he reads.

Books always help.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I suppose books are my real passion in life.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.