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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
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
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
I didn't read this bookI inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans. — William McKeen
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
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
Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit.~Laura Hecox — Candace Fleming
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
