All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which… — Lu Xun 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
“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
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. — William Temple Copy Share Image
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. — Oliver Goldsmith 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
“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
“I don't remember who spoke first, but I do recall the first words between us: "How often we meet among old books!"… — Ōgai Mori 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
Age appears to be best in some things Age appears to be best in some things. Old wood best to burn. Old… — Lorna Grace 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
“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
“Some of her earliest memories were of her grandmother's house, of a place that smelled like cinnamon and old books. The house… — Emily Lloyd-Jones 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
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
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. — Diane Setterfield 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 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
“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
“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 jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of… — Sara Sheridan 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
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
