“And yet sometimes she worried about what those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare… — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot Copy Share Image
“Now don't think I've lost my mind - but I'll tell you, I'll look at some of the cards I have, some… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic… — Tana French Copy Share Image
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I… — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Who are you? She asked silently, as she laid away the collector's quotations, his drawings, his scraps of famous poetry: "Come live… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“How well worn they all were..."Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Two mentally disturbed men decided they must go to school. They collected old books and went to sit under the tree pretending… — Newlove Copy Share Image
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.” — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.” — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
My mom was a model and she would show me her old books, and it was so cool. She would tell me… — Sistine Stallone Copy Share Image
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.” — Kate Evangelista Copy Share Image
“Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost at Eighty" I think there are poems greater and stranger than any I have known. I would like to find… — Peter Boyle Copy Share Image
Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I sighed, looking down at the book in my hands. The Years. I rested my elbow against the arm of the couch… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
