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For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.
— Gustave Flaubert
He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged.
— Hanya Yanagihara
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Why am I writing books in my old age? Who am I trying to impress? Why go on? the answer is fear of golf.
— David Taylor
It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.
— Michael Patrick Hearn
Where shadows dim with shadows mate,in caverns deep and dark.
Where old books dream of bygone days,
when they were wood and bark ... — Walter Moers
She read my books the way a young cannibal might eat the hearts of brave old enemies. Their magic would become hers.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
— George Payne Rainsford James
Opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
— Diane Setterfield
When a bookmark tumbles out of an old book pristine and unwrinkled, it is like a gasp of breath from another century.
— Don Borchert
The fragrance of rain mixes with the smell of old books. It is heavenly - that combination of threat and safety.
— Trudy Wallis
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
— Anne Fadiman
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[Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.
— John Milton
Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.
— C.S. Lewis
I glance back as I am pulling the door shut. I can see Mrs. Kasperek on her bed, in the apartment denuded of the books that were all her life.
— Deborah Meyler
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 am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.
— Michael Dirda
Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning ... and you came for an old book.
— Robin Sloan
Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.
— Kate Evangelista
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.
— Stieg Larsson
This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest of the afternoon.
— Rebecca Raisin
There probably are, but you would need a thaumaturge for that.They have books upon books of old magic. We only have Google. — Victoria Escobar
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
— Patricia Polacco
I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.
— Mary Russell Mitford
She had a lined, weathered face that put Roh in mind of the creased leather spines of old books.
— Kameron Hurley
If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.
— Mark Pryor
The aroma of tea mixed with the scent of old books, leather chairs, and wool from the carpet in a soothing fusion.
— Faith Hunter
The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
— Gail Z. Martin
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.
— Henry Austin Dobson
Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers.
— China Cancio
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
— Bernard Baruch
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
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Nevertheless, old stories, old rumors, and old picture books still seemed to have their own hold on the memory of the world. What
— Terry Pratchett
My wife was of slight stature and weighed no more than a box of old books. Folded as she was, she fitted snugly into the trunk.
— Stephen Livingston
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— Tushar Upreti
There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.
— Scott Douglas
The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.
— Patrick Rothfuss
a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence.
— Donna Tartt
New books feel special," said Hawthorne. "They're like babies born into the skin of old men.
— Mark Beauregard
I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.
— Leah Spiegel
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
I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books.
— Nicholaa Spencer
And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?
— Elizabeth Kostova
