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

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

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enem…”

“Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical se…”

“To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive …”