Age Quote by Josef Skvorecky

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

— Janet Fitch

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

— John Berger

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Not every classic book was the best thing ever. Each book has flaws, and it’s up to writers to change things.”

— Tim Holtorf

“The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.”

— Tiffini Johnson

“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

Books are my weakness.

— Dan Stevens

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

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read, especially in its original format. Yet…

— Marcus G Monroe

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth on which…

— Milton Meltzer