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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
- My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano. — John C. Hawkes
- On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me. — John C. Hawkes
- I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then. — John C. Hawkes