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Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

I'm an intellectual.

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.