23/04/2026
Philip Pullman noted, "After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."
Stephen King resonated with Carl Sagan as quoted in the attached video, saying that "books are a uniquely portable magic" in his memoir On Writing.
Scientist Albert Einstein said, "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales."
Roald Dahl wrote that his character Matilda traveled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.
Richard Steele said, "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Garrison Keillor maintained that "a book is a gift you can open again and again."
Annie Dillard, in The Living, observed, "She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."
Charles William Eliot proposed that "books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
Margaret Atwood, in Spelling, asserted that "a word after a word after a word is power."
On World Book and Copyright Day, we celebrate these quiet friends and the power they hold. Books remain our most accessible tools for education, professional, and personal development.
Take a moment today to open a gift you can enjoy again and again.
Exeed College students have access to an e-library where they can use thousands of titles for their education and professional development.
Our pages frequently feature curated booklists, recommending hundreds of new management, technology, education, and fiction titles to inspire and inform our diverse community of readers.
Watch this space!
Next week we will recommend a new list: "New Novels Navigating the Contemporary and Future Workplace."
"Wear the old coat and buy the new book," as Austin Phelps said.
Happy World Book and Copyright Day.