“As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
“Then she let him lick her fingers for her. He ran his tongue around the small ovals of her nails. This was… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease, There’s none like the quiet folk who wait… — Margaret Widdemer Copy Share Image
Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
“There is no call for you to get tragic about it. Tragedy is easy enough to contrive. And if you want to… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, there was this neighborhood beer and wine store that sold old comics for a nickel a piece.… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they… — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books .… — William H Gass Copy Share Image
“Gro Rollag was no beauty, but she was a strong capable young woman with a long face, prominent cheekbones, high forehead, and… — David Laskin Copy Share Image
“You know, old books are a big problem for us. Old knowledge in general. We call it OK. Old knowledge, OK. Did… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I bet Mrs Snapperly had no teeth and talked to herself, right?” said Miss Tick. “Yes. And she had a cat. And… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“My wife was of slight stature and weighed no more than a box of old books. Folded as she was, she fitted… — Stephen Livingston Copy Share Image
I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Employment in the Small Bookstore" Twelve Poems, 1975 The dust is almost motionless in this narrowness, this stillness, yet how unlike a… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among… — Virginia Wolf Copy Share Image
“Old Books Smell Of: A combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying… — Chemists of the University College London Copy Share Image
