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…

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

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

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

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

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern,...

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern,...

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing...

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing...

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library......

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library......

The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the...

The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the...

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library......

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library......

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

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

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

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

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

I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is...

I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is...

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

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...

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

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore...

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore...

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole...

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and...

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running...

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running...

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead,...

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead,...

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Next, in importance to books are their titles.