A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.
A book is a book is a book.
So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.