The book felt wonderful in my hands. I held it up to my…

“Books for me were what the ocean is to the fearless explorer-deep and mysterious, boundless and soothing. I loved the smell of books, the…

— Steve Pemberton

I even love the smell of books.

— Adriana Trigiani

“I couldn't hear anything or anyone, there was only the sound of our sex and the smell of books.”

— Juliet Gauvin

“Anyway, sorry,” Jad says to me quietly. “We’ll be fine,” I say. “People still like the smell of books.”

— Robin Sloan

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper,…

— Joseph Fiennes

“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 still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and…

— Neil Gaiman

“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”

— Barbara Michaels

I don't get how people want to read books on computers because it must be really bad for your eyes, for starters. I love…

— Kate Nash

“She loved the smell of books. She loved everything about books. It was her escape. She traveled all over the world with them. She…

— Soroosh Shahrivar

I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my…

— Dawn Richard

“The smell of books is the smell of us all coming together to document, entertain, and explain things for ourselves now and forever. It's…

— Neil Pasricha

I read on a Kindle. I must be of the opinion that the new way to read is a pretty good way to read.…

— Lore Segal

“There was nothing like the smell of books, particularly old books—that magical combination of oaky aged paper, the rich robustness of leather, the silkiness…

— H.Y. Hanna

“I went upstairs to my office. Lay in the dark among my books. The only comforting thing I have. An exile in my own…

— Philipp Meyer