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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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......

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that...

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that...

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also...

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also...

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are...

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are...

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you...

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you...

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The belief that becomes truth for me - is that which allows me the best...

The belief that becomes truth for me - is that which allows me the best...