“By this time, I was convinced that books were the key to progress, action of which I later learned was equally as important.”

Who said it, and where.

Who said “By this time, I was convinced that books were the key to progress, action of which I…”? Isaac Mashman said it in his essay "My Relationship with Books, Reading, and Why I Decided to Become an Author", Executive Thoughts, July 10, 2025, first published on Medium.