Books
"The Ex-Girlfriend." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Larry Charles, directed by Tom Cherones, season 2, episode 1, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1991.
Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Adams. 10 June 1815.
Jefferson, Thomas. "Jefferson to Adams • Monticello, June 10." The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams, edited by Lester J. Cappon. Omohundro Institute and The University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell
Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 9 July 1763.
Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.
Tuchman, Barbara. "Papyrus to Paperbacks: The World that Books Made." The Washington Post, 30 Dec. 1979.
Bacon, Francis. "Of Studies." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.
Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Studies." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Quoted in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
On the books she was planning to read.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Letter to George Smith. 4 Aug. 1859.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell. Mandolin, 1997.
Bradbury, Ray. "Bradbury Still Believes In Heat of 'Fahrenheit 451.'" Interviewed by Misha Berson. The New York Times, 12 Mar. 1993.
Quoted in Paris Review
Bradbury, Ray. "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203." Interviewed by Sam Weller. Paris Review, Spring 2010.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Peacham, Henry. The Compleat Gentleman. London: Francis Constable, 1622.
"The Persistence of Memory." Presented by Carl Sagan. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, season 1, episode 11. PBS, 7 Dec. 1980.
Rosenbach, A. S. W. A Book Hunter's Holiday. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936.
Ruskin, John. "Of Kings Treasures." Sesame and Lilies. 1864, Manchester, UK.
Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 18, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Addison, Joseph. The Spectator. London, 10 Sept. 1711, no. 166.
Forster, E.M. "A Book that Influenced Me," Two Cheers for Democracy. Hogarth Press, 1951. Originally published in 1944, publisher unknown.