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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

From all old seamy throats of elders, musty books, I've salvaged not a word. — Cormac McCarthy

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

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

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

Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes — Thien

In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process. — J.I. Packer

She read my books the way a young cannibal might eat the hearts of brave old enemies. Their magic would become hers. — Kurt Vonnegut

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. — C.S. Lewis

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 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

Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page. — Ameen Rihani

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

[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

old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history — Amy Tan

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

He loved the smell and feel of old books. To hold them was to touch the past. — Martin Edwards

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

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. — Bindi Irwin

She had a lined, weathered face that put Roh in mind of the creased leather spines of old books. — Kameron Hurley

Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism. — Maggie Young

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

Half the charm in old books is the marks of living they acquire; — Erika Swyler

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

I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books. — Lance Olsen

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

We all R failures that's why V need #CHILDREN to fulfill D needs of #Society,#Nation,#Worlds , so that we can live the same old selfish way — 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

I know the names of the books - their old covers bleached to palest greens or pinks by the endless cycle of summers - lined up on the shelf. — Harriet Lane

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

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. — Oscar Wilde

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

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

He smells the same - peppermint and cedar and a hint of old books. — Cath Crowley

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new? — Elizabeth Kostova

Dirty Freds ... I love this filthy old place. I love the dust and the dirt, the crappy old books and the objects of art. — Alan C. Martin

It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss the books most of all. — George R R Martin