Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a read more

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.