Quotes of: Old-books Keyword

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it s...

Ray Bradbury

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my...

Bill Mumy

I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.

The Book of Madness and Cures

Books are like people: fascinating, inspiring, thought-provoking, some laugh, some meditate, others ache with old age, but still have wisdom: some are disease-ridden, some deceitful; but others are a delight to behold, and many travel to foreign land...

Gladys Hunt

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

Nick Cave

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed ...

Yayoi Kusama

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.

Laura Hillenbrand

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here...

Aidan Chambers

We were bleeding information from the nose and ears, though dazed and disoriented was not how I experienced it. Most of the time, I felt like I was three years old, high on chocolate cake and social networks, constantly wired, ingesting information a...

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans for...

The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like a book to me – the only book I ever learned to read; and many an old story it tells me. It’s music, for I should know its voice among a thousand...

The Old Curiosity Shop

He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books.

The Clockwork Crown

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

Blue Smoke: A Book of Verses

On Halloween I like to scare up business the old fashioned way: with flyers, business cards, and electroshock therapy while wearing spooky masks.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

-I’m 60-years-old.  -Ma’am, I don’t believe it.  -You’re too kind.  -It’s true. You look at least 75.

This Book Has No Title

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

Nicholas Sparks

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.

Adriana Trigiani

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

Jim McKelvey