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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
- Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. — Jorge Luis Borges
- The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges
- I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. — Jorge Luis Borges