Basketball Quote by Shaquille O'Neal

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page…

— Anonymous

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of…

— Ray Bradbury

It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is…

— Gertrude Atherton

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

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

Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

— Eugene Field

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

— Nathan Fillion

I know that some people use lavender, incense, and cake as sedatives, but for me, a 'nose bath' in an old book just does…

— Alex Guarnaschelli

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

— Ray Bradbury

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

— George Gissing

Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.

— Anonymous

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

— Diane Setterfield