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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

They can say I have an opinion about something.

If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

People who've read my reviews know my tastes, know how I approach a book, know my background. I can write with believable authority. It doesn't mean I'm always right.

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

There's one thing I know for sure: When I'm most opinionated, my writing sucks.

I know that after my letter there will be undoubtedly an 'opinion' about me, but I am not afraid of it. I openly say what I think. Talent, of which we are proud, must not be submitted to the assaults of the past.

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.