Only write when your pillow is on fire.
Elie Wiesel
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
Agnes Repplier, 1855 – 1950
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
E. L. Doctorow, 1931 – 2015
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
John Locke, 1632 – 1704