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“Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had been the labour…

— Walter Scott

“He found the original sheet of paper and scored the couplet out with thick lines. And in doing this there was a sense of…

— George Orwell

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he…

— Thomas Hardy

“There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker; armoured with…

— Mervyn Peake

“He had been working at the wall for too long. Why he bothered the Lord only knew. After all, it went nowhere and closed…

— Peter Robinson

“The stranger drew the curtains round the bed, took up the light, and inspected the apartment. The walls of both rooms were hung with…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Objects and Objectives To contemplate LEGO. Many colours. Many shapes. Many inventive and useful shapes. Plastic. A versatile and practical substance. Symbolic of the…

— Jay Woodman

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library indeed. Under…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might build their…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“Somehow the fact that only three or four hundred years ago these skeletons had been men with their way to make in the world…

— Virginia Woolf