“Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?” - Winnie-the-Pooh. Winnie-the Pooh by A. A. Milne.
Great Books on Books
Quotes from great books about the joy of reading.
“‘He who owns Books and loves them is wise,’ repeated Petunia to herself. And she thought as hard and as long as she could. ‘Well then,’ she said at last, “if I take this Book with me, and love it, I will be wise too. And no one will call me a silly goose ever again.” -Petunia by Roger DuVoisin
“Ah, the wondrous, mighty, gorgeous alphabet…where it all begins.” -The little yellow bird. How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills.
“Those books are like people to me. Living, breathing beings. Dear, dear friends.” -Alia. Alia’s Mission by Mark Alan Stamaty.
“My God, the whole world is collapsing. Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?” -Caleb. The Camel Club by David Baldacci
“Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.” -Prospero. The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” -Guy Montag. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” -Jojen Reed. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.” -Gregory. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
