In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“I run my fingers down the spines of old books and ancient tales. I smell the ink and feel the pages as… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“Almost I feel the pulsebeat of the ages, Now swift, now slow, beneath my fingertips. The heartthrobs of the prophets and the… — Grace Noll Crowell Copy Share Image
“Academia is an odd place. Stately buildings and ivy, wrought iron fences, and libraries fragrant with the smell of old books. Young… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book… — Alan Robert Copy Share Image
“She looked at him. Then she looked at the table stacked with books. Her lips curved in a wicked smile. “If you… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
“He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“He hoped and feared,' continued Solon, in a low. mournful voice; 'but at times he was very miserable, because he did not… — Fitz James O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The thing, whatever it was - and no one was ever sure afterwards whether it was a dream or a fit or… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“He did. He researched her. Someone told him that she had a special interest in John Milton. It did not take long… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“I know this is one of the unthinkable taboos of our society, but I had discovered in myself a talent for a… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. — William Temple Copy Share Image
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done… — 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
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
“The reading of old books enables us to avoid becoming passive captives of the Spirit of the Age by keeping “the clean… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me.… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We… — Anonymous 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
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
“You can find all the new ideas in the old books; only there you will find them balanced, kept in their place,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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
“I pushed her shiny blond hair away from her face and leaned down, our faces only inches apart. She inhaled softly, our… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“I was rooting about among the things for sale when I came on some old books—cheap, well-thumbed copies of the Greek and… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she… — Louisa May Alcott 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
“Although she was a logical, practical person, she believed that in books there existed a kind of magic. Between the aging covers… — Christi Phillips Copy Share Image
“There was nothing like the smell of books, particularly old books—that magical combination of oaky aged paper, the rich robustness of leather,… — H.Y. Hanna Copy Share Image
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