Write To Be Understood, Speak To Be

What Makes A Book Great, A So-called Classic, It Its Quality Of Always Being Modern, Of Its Author, Though He Be Long Dead, Continuing To Speak To Each New Generation.

Unless Their Use By Readers Bring Them To Life, Books Are Indeed Dead Things.

I Can Speak Of My Own Criterion For Judging Whether Or Not A Book Is Good Or Bad. I Ask Of It A Single Question, From How Deep And True An Impulse Did It Spring? Was It Written Merely To Shock? Only To Make Money? Or Was It Written To Create Something More Perfect And More Lasting Than The Life Experience From Which It Came?

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

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.