“He pulled out a thick black volume. "You've never read this, for example." The Savage took it. "The Holy Bible, containing the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Far back in history, there is evidence that men who have attempted to solve the riddle of water have been bitterly attacked.… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“I will come,' the priest answered, 'for I have read in old books of these strange beings which are neither quick nor… — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe… — Rachel Hall Copy Share Image
“This place might have been paradise, a treasure trove far greater than any to be found in a pirate yarn. Everywhere he… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“Where shadows dim with shadows mate, in caverns deep and dark. Where old books dream of bygone days, when they were wood… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“for a week she has been tormented, she burns to write something, gentle warmth emanates from her whole body, but still nothing… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“There is also a keen pleasure (and after all, what else should the pursuit of science produce?) in meeting the riddle of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I know that don't sound senseful, but yarns 'bout Old-Un Smart an' flyin' dwellin's an' grown' babbits in bottles an' pictures zoomin'… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“But where Ma saw only old books gathering dust and smelling of mildew, I found comfort and possibility. Other worlds were within… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“The only customers they'd get on a day like this were lunatics -- well, lunatics and hopeless romantics with a fetish for… — Katherine Pine Copy Share Image
“Alexandria and its scholars […] never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
