„What I intended to do was to burn a half dozen of my books and keep warm, so that I could write my story, but when I looked around for titles to burn, I couldn’t find any.“

— William Saroyan

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„I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story — I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it — but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern.“
— Lewis Carroll
„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
„What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.“
— Sigmund Freud