"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." -- Henry James
Friday, January 30, 2009
Daily Dose
From Picked-Up Pieces, by John Updike
THINK OF A PENCIL
"Think of a pencil. What a quiet, nimble, slender and then stubby wonder-worker he is! At his touch, worlds leap into being; a tiger with no danger, a steam-roller with no weight, a palace at no cost."
I'm a bookseller and a used books buyer of more than 30 years experience and a lifelong bibliophile. I've been married in all but legality to my husband Allen for more than 35 years.
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