Age Quote by Edmund Burke

“For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has…

— C.S. Lewis

“Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit…

— William Hazlitt

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

— Lev Grossman

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away…

— Anne Enright

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore,…

— Anonymous

Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their…

— Patricia C. Wrede

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

— Margaret Drabble

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

— Judy Blume

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

— Jeremy Collier

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

— Phyllis McGinley

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes