Kathy

“He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.”
― Heywood Broun, Seeing Things at Night

“It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.”
― John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008

“The personal library is…the archive of a reading life. Or perhaps a mausoleum in which, though sealed away, one lives like nowhere else.”
― Burkhard Spinnen, The Book: An Homage

“Said Opie Read to E.P. Roe,
"How do you like Gaboriau?"
"I like him very much indeed!"
Said E.P. Roe to Opie Read.”
― Julian Street