Book Quote by Nelson Mandela

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

— Judy Blume

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away…

— Anne Enright

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

— Edna Ferber

“What I worry about most is the loss to young people. If no one speaks out for them, if they don't speak out for…

— Judy Blume

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

— Esther Meynell

“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except…

— Carl Sagan

We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think…

— Jeanette Winterson

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

— Anonymous

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

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

— Tamora Pierce

The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.

— Chetan Bhagat

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will…

— Judy Blume