Books Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Meg Leder

“He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface.…

— Jenny Nimmo

“I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and…

— Saffron Mello Castro

“It smelled like a library – the initial whiff of something bitter, followed by the scent lingering in every book there – dusty, sweet,…

— Kimberly Krey

“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”

— Barbara Michaels

“My bookshelf was my favorite part of my room. It had a calming presence. Maybe there was something to be said about the feeling…

— Katie Kacvinsky

“We were the only customers downstairs in the shop and there were no windows and only two dim bulbs, without shades. There was a…

— Ian McEwan

“I'd open the door in the morning and the slightly sweet smell of second hand books would greet me. For years I wondered just…

— Heather Rose

“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

“For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets…

— Elizabeth C. Bunce

“Books for general reading always smell badly. The odor of common people hangs about them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The silence in the room was so unusually quiet that the beginning of it seemed rather loud when the utter stillness of the end…

— Flann O'Brien