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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
- As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. — Annie Dillard
- The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. — Annie Dillard
- As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net. — Annie Dillard