Age Quote by Hamilton Wright Mabie

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

— Jane Yolen

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did…

— Robert Caro

To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy…

— Washington Irving

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

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

— Katherine Paterson

I think the book business is really sitting on the greatest moment in the history of time. We are providing the stories to the…

— Adriana Trigiani

The age of the book is almost gone.

— George Steiner

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.

— Anthony Doerr

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves…

— Anonymous

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A…

— David Quammen