Reading Books Is Good, Rereading Good Books

A Book Is One Of The Most Patient Of All Man's Inventions. Centuries Mean Nothing To A Well-made Book. It Awaits Its Destined Reader, Come When He May, With Eager Hand And Seeing Eye. Then Occurs One Of The Great Examples Of Union, That Of A Man With A Book, Pleasurable, Sometimes Fruitful, Potentially World-changing, Simple; And In A Library...witho Ut Cost To The Reader.

[a Writer] Must Try To Think Clearly, To Feel Deeply, To Write Honestly. If He Is Fortunate He Will Make A Living, But His Work Will Never Be Anymore Essentially Clear And Deep And Honest Than He Himself Is, And He Will Be Judged Finally Not For How Many Copies His Books Have Sold, But For What They Have Done To Enrich The Lives Of Their Readers, Now And In Time To Come.

Write To Be Understood, Speak To Be Heard, Read To Grow.

No University In The World Has Ever Risen To Greatness Without A Correspondingly Great Library... When This Is No Longer True, Then Will Our Civilization Have Come To An End.

To Achieve Lasting Literature, Fictional Or Factual, A Writer Needs Perceptive Vision, Absorptive Capacity, And Creative Strength.