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Anne Fadiman Quotes about Reading

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Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Anne Fadiman
Reading, Mean, Cutting
Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.137, Macmillan

when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.

Anne Fadiman
Children, Book, Reading

When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.

Anne Fadiman
Children, Book, Reading
Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.13, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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