And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.
This combines a couple of things I like best — cars and sport.
I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.
It might be my favorite book of mine. It was a very exciting time in my life. I was writing that book while I was at college. Sort of like the best of times, the worst of times. There was a lot of elation, there was a lot of despair. It was just a really fun book to write. I loved mimicking all the different voices. The stream of conscious does get a little out of hand. I kind of like that about the book. It's kind of all over the place. It's casual. It's scruffy. That's the one book of mine that I have a very, very soft spot for.
All noblest things are religious,— not temples and martyrdoms only, but the best books, pictures, poetry, statues, and music.
They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books.
… and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.