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

“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 Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“I even love the smell of books.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

“The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

“My wealth is my shelf of books!”

Jack Vance Demon Princes

“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist