„I took that horrible novel back to the library — yes! That hideous book by that insane Mr. Lawrence. I cannot control the output of diseased minds or people who cater to them — BUT I WON’T ALLOW SUCH FILTH BROUGHT INTO MY HOUSE! No, no, no, no, no!“

— Tennessee Williams

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„As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.“
— Virginia Woolf
„I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.'No, and if he were I would burn my library.“
— William Shakespeare
„I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.“
— Jean Paul Sartre