The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
