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

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea. — Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered. — Carmela Dutra

I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like. — Amy Poehler

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

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

Don't get me wrong - I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush. — Patrick Carman

There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page. — Dave Mustaine

Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write. — Rob Bignell, Editor

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

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

This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books. — Jonathan Galassi

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books. — Sue Monk Kidd

Somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring. — Brandon Sanderson

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

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines. — Christian Lacroix

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 basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books. — Ruth Ozeki

Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world. — Jane Hamilton

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me. — Margaret Atwood

Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down. — Jacqueline Woodson

Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought. — C.S. Lewis

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

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

We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves. — William Hazlitt

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

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

The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now — Philippa Gregory

Books measure time in both moments and years.
We all grow old but the stories never will. — R.M. Engelhardt

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

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

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

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. — Henry Ford

Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING — Kate Forsyth

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

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. — David James Duncan

The fragrance of rain mixes with the smell of old books. It is heavenly - that combination of threat and safety. — Trudy Wallis

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

Evil and I are old adversaries. When we compete I hate to lose, Manny Bettencourt from Murder in the Pinelands — Larry Moniz

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

Hello, nice to meet you, I sell unreadable books to weird old people - want to get dinner? — Robin Sloan

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

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

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

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

[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

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

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. — Leigh Hunt

I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring. — Belinda Jeffrey

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that. — Method Man

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'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

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

He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books. — Beth Cato

I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy. — Dane Cook

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

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age. — Paullina Simons

Old books are like Old friends — George R R Martin

The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential. — Alex Flinn

Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers. — China Cancio

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books — Aravind Adiga

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good. — Tim Tharp

Read two old books for every new one. — J.I. Packer

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

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through. — Jill Lepore

I have this obsession with really cool, old books. — Constance Zimmer

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

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

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

The aroma of tea mixed with the scent of old books, leather chairs, and wool from the carpet in a soothing fusion. — Faith Hunter

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

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

a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence. — Donna Tartt

How old did someone have to be before they could be put to use to make tea? — Jenny Oliver

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

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets. — Patrick Rothfuss

Whatever happened to the good old days when books just got along, cozied up together on bookshelves, hanging out, waiting to be read? — Karen Marie Moning

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books. — Mark Pryor

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

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

When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. — Marilynne Robinson

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

New books feel special," said Hawthorne. "They're like babies born into the skin of old men. — Mark Beauregard

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end. — Richard Brautigan

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

The Facts were right there waiting for me,hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest — Ernest Cline

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books. — Jamie Campbell Bower

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

There are some books that LIVE," she mused. "They are young with us, and they grow old with us. — Virginia Woolf

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. — William Temple

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. — H.P. Lovecraft

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body. — Bikram Choudhury