“May I have a few friends and many books - both true.”

“May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true.”

“Ah yet, ere I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books, both true, both wise and both delightful too.”

“Ere I descend to th' grave,May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books.”

“Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.”

“I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you come to new places and live new lives.”

“There would seem to be four stages in the composition of a story. First comes the germ of the story, then a period of more or less conscious meditation, then the first draft, and finally the revision, which may be simply ‘pencil work’ as John O’Hara calls it — that is, minor changes in wording — or may lead to writing several drafts and what amounts to a new work.”