We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.