When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose
Anne FadimanSome day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.
Anne FadimanI can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
Anne Fadiman