Book Quote by Elizabeth Kostova Download Open image “And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?” — Elizabeth Kostova ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Books Old Consent Consent Smell Giving Giving up Open book Open Books Smell Smell Open Writer
“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out from between their pages – a special… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it .” — Tiffany King Copy Share Image
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full of promise… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute. — Nathan Fillion 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 the leather… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
“I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more lightheaded –… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“Then he said a strange thing, but to himself. 'They lived, didn't they?' And I said yes, that when one reads old letters one… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“I preferred solitude anyway; it was the medium in which I had been raised, in which I swam comfortably.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
