Book Quote by Margaret Drabble

Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Years teach us more than books.

— Anonymous

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

— John Berger

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

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

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

— George Orwell

“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

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

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the…

— Edmund Burke

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

— Doris Lessing

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

— Martin Amis

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated…

— Lauren Groff