Book Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived,…

— Lauren Willig

Growing up, books were my best friends, just because I didn't really have a lot of peers as deaf kids. So I read, and…

— Lauren Ridloff

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

— Megan Abbott

There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best…

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts,…

— Jodie Foster

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

— Tahereh Mafi

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

— Cassandra Clare

I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return,…

— Kate Morton

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find…

— Annie Baker

I was a very quiet kid who didn't feel normal being outgoing and running around, so all the beauty that was in my life,…

— Alison Sudol

When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked…

— Lorene Cary