So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see -- It would be my present to you, my sweet, If it weren't your gift to me.

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

My books didn't fit a marketing niche.

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

My books are all fantastically sentimental.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

My library is an archive of longings.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

I am no fan of books.

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun

Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo!

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

A book is not completed till it's read.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.