To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain&#39;t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.

I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.

Written By Harold Bloom

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