Book Quote by Laurence Housman

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

— John Green

“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

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

Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are…

— David Lubar

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to…

— John Erskine

I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and…

— Sue Townsend

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

— Oscar Hijuelos

“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

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write…

— Moliere

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

— Lionel Trilling

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