Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant

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

I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create somethin

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation