Ashes Quote by Hilda Doolittle

“My writing tools were my most precious belongings. My best quill pen was made from a raven’s feather . . . I was often…

— Kate Forsyth

“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

Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.

— Carl Sandburg

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

— Patrick O'Brian

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Each book starts from ashes.

— Philip Roth

Books are always the best accessories to anything.

— Jeremiah Brent

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

— Gary D. Schmidt

“...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

Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary…

— Anonymous

Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley