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Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book. — Ronald Blythe

Never read a book that is not a year old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned. — Malorie Blackman

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. — Ray Bradbury

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old. — Jane Yolen

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting. — Gianni Versace

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I grew it - sorry, drew it - for this book, if for no other reason than to illustrate the old saying that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. — Connor Franta

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. — Nick Cave

When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life. — Thomas Jones

Jericho didn't seem to know life beyond the pages of a musty old book, and he didn't seem interested in knowing anything beyond that, either. — Libba Bray

Your old grade book is a waste of space and time. Don't hesitate; just throw it Out. — Starr Sackstein

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something. — Nicholas Sparks

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. — James Russell Lowell

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused. — Margaret Atwood

The Dog was a different matter. She was new, or so old that any book that told of her was long since dust. The creature in the fog thought the latter. — Garth Nix

I didn't read this book
I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans. — William McKeen

A wise old owl once told me,
One time when he was out of his tree,
That nothing in this world is for free.
I agree! — P.D. Cain

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old. — Steven Cojocaru

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign. — Loretta Lynn

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book. — Billy Bob Thornton

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends. — William Faulkner

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much. — Zoe Sugg

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend. — Louis L'Amour

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. — Stanley Kubrick

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. — Walt Whitman

When a bookmark tumbles out of an old book pristine and unwrinkled, it is like a gasp of breath from another century. — Don Borchert

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out. — Eli Wallach

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. — Dan Millman Way Of The Peaceful Warrior A Book That Changes Lives

He knew what I was thinking," the boy said to himself. The old man, meanwhile, was leafing through the book, without seeming to — Paulo Coelho

Holding a book you're reading is kind of old-school. — Trip Adler

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit. — Stephen King

Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit.

~Laura Hecox — Candace Fleming

Old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life. — Dorothy Gilman

Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses. — Fennel Hudson

Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book dust. — Rebecca Makkai

Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don't feel like reading anymore. — Khadija Rupa

If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old. — Carew Papritz

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

A book should open old wounds, even inflict new ones. A book should be a danger. — Emil Cioran

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little — Voltaire

This is the derivation of that old Yankee proverb that if you can sell a book, you can move sixty tons of weaponry three hundred miles in winter — Sarah Vowell

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down. — Margaret Drabble

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. — Anne Fadiman

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book. — Shelby Lynne

The Navy is very old and very wise. — Rudyard Kipling

Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath. — Stefan Bachmann

It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks. — Wendy Mass

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones. — Will Thomas

I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book. — William Ivey Long

Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning ... and you came for an old book. — Robin Sloan

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy's book! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If people-young and old-can get one thing from my book I hope it is this: that there dream do count, no matter how big or small. — April E. Brucker

If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong. — Billy Bob Thornton

You don't stop the watch when you are afraid of getting old, so don't cut off advertising when you want to save money."
~Madi Preda — Madi Preda

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up. — Tony Dungy

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain. — Oliver Stone

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old. — Joan Larkin

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready. — Jonathan Lethem

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. — Harrison Ford

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed. — Sherwood Anderson

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room. — Eleanor Porter

For the first time, I smelled her. I can't describe the smell. Flowery, yet somehow musty, like a beautiful woman with the soul of an old book. — Caris O'Malley

Well old man, I guess freedom's a continuum. — Nicholas Hochstedler

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. — China Mieville

And on the worn book of old-golden
I brought not here to read, it seems, but hold
And freshen in this air of withering sweetness; — Robert Frost

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it. — Barbara Kingsolver

I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips. — Leah Spiegel

When a new book is published, read an old one. — Samuel Rogers

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old. — Dinaw Mengestu

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. — C.S. Lewis

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know. — Bobby Fischer

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children — L. Frank Baum

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out. — Lu Xun

There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it . — Tiffany King

As a girl-twelve, thirteen years old-I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me. — Elena Ferrante

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961. — Ed Emberley

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book. — Andy Rooney

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome. — Robert Briffault

I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books. — Nicholaa Spencer

Contrary to popular opinion, the Old Testament is not a single book with one unified view of who God is and how life works. — Anonymous

One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club. — Flannery O'Connor