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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding read more
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on read more
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he read more
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
