There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward.
- Peter Ackroyd
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books
- Aravind Adiga
Then she let him lick her fingers for her. He ran his tongue around the small ovals of her nails. This was the closest she could get to him without becoming food: she was in him, or part of her was in part of him. Sex was the other way around: While that was going on, he was in her. I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
- Margaret Atwood
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
- Bernard Baruch
I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
- Jack Bowman
I love to both give and receive very old books.
- Augusten Burroughs
I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind, every day a bit louder, I heard the seashell drone of some growing, coalescing force; I seemed to smell the bitter ozone aroma of lightings-to-come.
- Stephen King
Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.
- Stephen King
often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among the living, better acquainted with them than with her own friends. she very nearly lost consciousness that she was a separate being, with a future of her own.
- Virginia Woolf
You mean old books?"
"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
"How could there have been stories about space travel before --"
"The writers," Pris said, "made it up.
- Philip K Dick
There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.
- Scott Douglas
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.
- Kate Evangelista
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
- Anne Fadiman
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
- Henry Ford
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
- William Temple
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
- Oliver Goldsmith
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading old books.
- Joseph Joubert
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.
- C S Lewis
Alexandria and its scholars [...] never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an ever-shifting present in which new readers engaged with old books which became new in the reading process. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
- Alberto Manguel
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
- Alberto Manguel
Read two old books for every new one.
- J I Packer
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
- Diane Setterfield
- Peter Ackroyd
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books
- Aravind Adiga
Then she let him lick her fingers for her. He ran his tongue around the small ovals of her nails. This was the closest she could get to him without becoming food: she was in him, or part of her was in part of him. Sex was the other way around: While that was going on, he was in her. I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
- Margaret Atwood
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
- Bernard Baruch
I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
- Jack Bowman
I love to both give and receive very old books.
- Augusten Burroughs
I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind, every day a bit louder, I heard the seashell drone of some growing, coalescing force; I seemed to smell the bitter ozone aroma of lightings-to-come.
- Stephen King
Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.
- Stephen King
often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among the living, better acquainted with them than with her own friends. she very nearly lost consciousness that she was a separate being, with a future of her own.
- Virginia Woolf
You mean old books?"
"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
"How could there have been stories about space travel before --"
"The writers," Pris said, "made it up.
- Philip K Dick
There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.
- Scott Douglas
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.
- Kate Evangelista
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
- Anne Fadiman
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
- Henry Ford
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
- William Temple
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
- Oliver Goldsmith
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading old books.
- Joseph Joubert
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.
- C S Lewis
Alexandria and its scholars [...] never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an ever-shifting present in which new readers engaged with old books which became new in the reading process. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
- Alberto Manguel
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
- Alberto Manguel
Read two old books for every new one.
- J I Packer
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
- Diane Setterfield
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