Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
Ray BradburyTags: book-lover
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward BeecherTags: reading book-lover
The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.
Stephen ColbertTags: humor book-lover
As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Voila! Bookshelves!
Jan KaronTags: reading books literacy book-lover
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
Henry Ward BeecherTags: books book-lover
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
Eudora WeltyTags: book-lover
. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: books book-lover
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
Oprah WinfreyTags: book-lover
As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
No ... eight days a week.
Tags: book-lover
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: book-lover
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