Aromatherapy Quote by James Lovelock

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

— Emile M. Cioran

“A book would therefore have a twofold benefit. First, it would rid me of my demons and perhaps save some innocent conversationalist from my…

— Mark Forsyth

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

— T. E. Lawrence

The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.

— Northrop Frye

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting…

— Daphne du Maurier

For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria,…

— M. F. K. Fisher

“Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong”

— Janice Young Brooks

“Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The book is the world's most patient medium.

— Northrop Frye

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves,…

— Franz Kafka

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

— Elizabeth Kostova