What Makes A Book Great, A So-called

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

[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.

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.

I Have Always Been Reconciled To The Fact That I Was Born A Bibliomaniac, Never Have I Sought A Cure, And My Dearest Friends Have Been Drawn From Those Likewise Suffering From Book Madness.