Clifton Fadiman Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Consciousness, Film

  Clifton Fadiman (1988). “The lifetime reading plan”, HarperCollins Publishers

• When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Art, Book, Reading

  Any Number Can Play "War and Peace, Fifteen Years After" (1957)

• One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Running, Book, Home

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

• There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Morning, Book, Hot

• Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Dark, Ideas

  Clifton Fadiman (1988). “The lifetime reading plan”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Character, Reality

• [Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Rainy Day, Visits You

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