All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.
It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.
Books and people are hard to compare.
Great books are rare.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.