Books Quote by Franz Kafka

“I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration.”

— Petra Remes

“Everything around me smelled musty, like when you open an old book and it smells like words.”

— Meg Leder

“I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind,…

— Stephen King

“I want to bury my head in books like in pillows and breathe in stories like air.”

— Ksenia Anske

“An astonishing, curdled smell that had subtle layers of foulness for the nose to explore.”

— Andrew Michael Hurley

“This story is about stink, after all, a story about rot, about how life grows out of the most fetid-smelling places.”

— Larissa Lai

“Wake up and smell the corpses.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

“I'm surprised by how much the inside of a dead body smells like the inside of a live one.”

— Annelise Ryan

“I bear no shame in smelling books.”

— K. Lynn Cupino

“Until you write what is detectable but dislodges you. Like the smell of cinnamon.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

“When we kill our desires we stink like any corpse.”

— Harold Norse

“My corpse will smell wonderful.”

— Victoria Aveyard