Reading Books Is Good, Rereading Good Books

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.

The Good Writer, The Great Writer, Has What I Have Called The Three S's: The Power To See, To Sense, And To Say. That Is, He Is Perceptive, He Is Feeling, And He Has The Power To Express In Language What He Observes And Reacts To.

Reading Books Is Good, Rereading Good Books Is Better.

This Is The Gift All Writers Seek-to Write Language That Incandesces Yet Does Not Melt.

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