Post by Josh on Jan 7, 2013 11:06:47 GMT -8
"The influence of any widely read book can hardly be overestimated. If it is sensational, shoddy, or vulgar our lives are the poorer for the cheap ideals which it sets in circulation; if, as so rarely happens, it is a thoroughly good book, honestly conceived and honestly executed, we are all indebted to it. The movies have not undermined the influence of fiction. On the contrary, they have extended its field, carrying the ideas which are already current among readers to those to young, too impatient, or too uneducated to read."
Dorothea Brande
Dorothea Brande