Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you’ll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you’ll be in as much trouble as I am!

Jerome Lawrence (1915-2004) and Robert E. Lee (1918-1994), The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

The Library Walk, is a venture launched in 1996 by the New York Public Library, Grand Central Partnership and New Yorker Magazine, in which are embedded in bronze plaques quotes from well-known books, or those dealing with books and literature. The panels designed by artist Gregg LeFevre were laid in 1998 from the New York Public Library building along 41st Street.

The plaque features a quote from the play written by two American playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail." A play related to the night that the American writer, poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau "spent" in prison. This was after he refused to pay tax, which he thought was supposed to serve the United States-Mexico War, which he opposed.

In the illustration that accompanies the quote, many pencils appear with the name of the Thoreau family’s pencil factory.