Category: Quotes

  • Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

    —Charles William Eliot
  • “A story is about the reader, not the writer.”

    —Richard Peck
  • “‘What day is it?’, asked Winnie the Pooh.
    ‘It’s today,’ squeaked Piglet.
    ‘My favorite day,’ said Pooh.”

    —The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
  • “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”

    — Langston Hughes
  • “Let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.”

    – Malala Yousafzai
  • “Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”

    – Henry David Thoreau
  • “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”

    — Robert Louis Stevenson
  • “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

    — Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
  • “How can I know what I think until I see what I say?”

    — E. M. Forster
  • “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”

    — Albert Einstein