She lifted the book to her nose. A book had a smell more…

“She lifted the book to her nose and inhaled the scent lingering in its cardboard bones: a hint of rosewater and Lysol that instantly…

— Armistead Maupin

He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to…

— John Bellairs

“[about a book lent by a crush] Last night I read into the wee small hours. Fell asleep with my face in the book,…

— Bob Condron

“There are people who read books, and then there are people who define their lives by the books they have read and by the…

— Jeffrey Keeten

“The bookstore itself was cozy but not crowded, with posters of classic novels framed and hung on the walls. And it was filled with…

— Shaun David Hutchinson

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of…

— Ray Bradbury

“The first way Maya approaches a book is to smell it.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of…

— George Gissing

I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell…

— Anne Fadiman

“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

— Aesop Rock

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer