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“There was nothing like the smell of books, particularly old books—that magical combination of oaky aged paper, the rich robustness of leather, the silkiness…

— H.Y. Hanna

“Goods were arranged in glass cabinets as if they were ancient Egyptian artefacts. I was a contaminant, a fly in the gourmet soup, a…

— A.J. Reid

...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not…

— Russell T Davies

“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire…

— John Updike

“Like the button, the wheelbarrow, the spoon and the umbrella, the printed book is one of the truly great inventions of mankind - beautifully…

— William Boyd

“Quoyle remembered purple-brown seckle pears the size and shape of figs, his father taking the meat off with pecking bites, the smell of fruit…

— Annie Proulx

“There were murky glass vessels holding baby Xenomorphs (possibly they were pickles) and bright colorful boxes with labels in Arabic and Hebrew and other…

— Robin Sloan

“The progress of Sybilla though a market was the progress of worker bee through a bower of intently propagating blossoms. Everything stuck. From the…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Behind the counter, I slouched on my stool in the sun and sucked up the summer as If I could hold every drop of…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“All books are coloring books, if you are in possession of a childlike imagination, and a box of markers.”

— Jarod Kintz

“...it was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of…

— Regina O'Melveny

“This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh from the…

— Lavie Tidhar