"Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet’ner of life, and solder of society." ― Robert Blair Topic(s): Friendship More In Friendship "Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired."― Greg Bear "The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well."― Charles de Lint "No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship."― Francis Marion Crawford