'In the old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by anybody.'
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'What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.'