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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
- I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. — Samuel Beckett
- They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
- Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. — Samuel Beckett