Books Quote by Judy Blume

If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the…

— Judy Blume

“But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned.”

— John Williams

“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

“So many adults are exhausting themselves worrying about other people corrupting their children with books, they're turning kids off to reading instead of turning…

— Judy Blume

“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.”

— Richard Peck

“People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing…

— Nelson Mandela

“One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.”

— Amit Kalantri

“I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.”

— Scott Corbett

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

— Tiffini Johnson

“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.”

— E.M. Forster

“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.”

— Donalyn Miller