I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (1811-1863)

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up solar energy, and give off oxygen. Wouldn't it be simpler just to rough in a slab of chemicals, a green acre of goo?
Annie Dillard

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into another room to read a book.
Groucho Marx