Anne Fadiman Quotes about 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.

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

Book, Writing, Sleep

When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

Anne Fadiman

Writing, Dark, Purple

Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.64, Macmillan

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

Anne Fadiman

Girl, Father, Writing

1998 On her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned man-ofletters. In Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader.

Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four hours pass in a moment; I have no idea what time it is, because I never check the clock. If I chose to listen, I could hear the swish of taxis bound for downtown bars or the soft saxophone riffs that drift from a neighbor's window, but nothing gets through. I am suspended in a sensory deprivation tank, and the very lack of sensation is delicious.

Anne Fadiman

Sleep, Writing, Cities

Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.73, Macmillan

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

Responsibility, Writing, Voice

Anne Fadiman Quotes about Writing

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