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What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long…
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The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to…
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I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it…
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[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living,…
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This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then…
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I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my…
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Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.
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A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its…
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Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a…
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Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
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Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
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