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Believers And Doers Are What We Need - Faithful Librarians Who Are Humble In The Presence Of Books.... To Be In A Library Is One Of The Purest Of All Experiences. This Awareness Of Library's Unique, Even Sacred Nature, Is What Should Be Instilled In Our Neophites.

[a Writer] Must Try To Think Clearly, To Feel Deeply, To Write Honestly. If He Is Fortunate He Will Make A Living, But His Work Will Never Be Anymore Essentially Clear And Deep And Honest Than He Himself Is, And He Will Be Judged Finally Not For How Many Copies His Books Have Sold, But For What They Have Done To Enrich The Lives Of Their Readers, Now And In Time To Come.

We All Think Were Going To Be Great And We Feel A Little Bit Robbed When Our Expectation Aren't Met, But Sometimes Our Expectations Sell Us Short. Sometimes The Expected Simply Pales In Comparison To The Write To Be Understood, Speak To Be Heard, Read To Grow.

A Book Is One Of The Most Patient Of All Man's Inventions. Centuries Mean Nothing To A Well-made Book. It Awaits Its Destined Reader, Come When He May, With Eager Hand And Seeing Eye. Then Occurs One Of The Great Examples Of Union, That Of A Man With A Book, Pleasurable, Sometimes Fruitful, Potentially World-changing, Simple; And In A Library...witho Ut Cost To The Reader.

To Achieve Lasting Literature, Fictional Or Factual, A Writer Needs Perceptive Vision, Absorptive Capacity, And Creative Strength.