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…

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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......

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.

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......

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,...

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,...

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing...

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

We cannot learn men from books.

We cannot learn men from books.

In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations,...

In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations,...

Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the...

Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the...

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a...

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a...

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less...

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less...