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
Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how… — Lauren Willig 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
Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“She smelled like sweet tea and old books, like she had always been here.” — Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
“These last few months Vida had started believing in all kinds of strange things she'd have laughed at when we lived back… — Judith Clarke 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
“There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the… — Robert E. Lee 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
“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
“a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“He loved the smell and feel of old books. To hold them was to touch the past.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
