It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

Seuss's honors include two Academy awards two Emmy awards a Peabody award the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal and the Pulitzer Prize. Mulberry Street in Springfield made famous in Dr. As a result Dean Craven Laycock insisted that he resign from all extracurricular activities including the college humor magazine.

It was not uncommon for him to throw out 95% of his material until he settled on a theme for his book. He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Theophrastus Seuss in college and later used Theo LeSieg and once Rosetta Stone as well as Dr.