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Anne Fadiman

American Author

Born: Aug 7, 1953

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The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to find a persona that is very much like you, but slightly caricatured. Anne Fadiman

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me. Anne Fadiman

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The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting. Anne Fadiman

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I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur. Anne Fadiman

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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather. Anne Fadiman

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