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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
- The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. — R. W. Apple, Jr.
- Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents. — R. W. Apple, Jr.
- Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood. — R. W. Apple, Jr.