"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."

~ Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926) American academic, President of Harvard 1869 - 1929.

"I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you. . . warm as you write."

~ Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) American writer