“ A childhood without books - that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy. ”
Categories: Joy Book Literature
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Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end. 
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. 
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? 
If you see both "pain" and "beauty" of Life, then there would be enormous compassion in you, and yet no pain in you. There would be joy in you even though there is so much misery. 
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. 
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.