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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Call me Ishmael.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

You’re not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.