People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
“I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.”
“We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them.”