“When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.”

“I have spent my life 'dreaming' of becoming a writer. I co-wrote 2 books & I write articles for a magazine. Guess what?? I am a writer...dream accomplished! Everything after that is just business!!”

“Who am I? I'm a poet. My business? Writing.How do I live? I live.In my happy poverty I squander like a prince,my poems and songs of love.In hopes and dreams and castles-in-air,I'm a millionaire in spirit .”

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

“I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure, in time, until I spent most of my hours searching for such books. Then I devised a plan of study for myself, tracing obscure sciences, one after another, from the dawn of knowledge to the present. Eventually I exhausted even that, and beginning at the great ebony case that stands in the center of the room we of the library have maintained for three hundred years against the return of the Autarch Sulpicius (and into which, in consequence, no one ever comes) I read outward for a period of fifteen years, often finishing two books in one day.”

“You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!”