Ray Bradbury Quotes

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

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.

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

I even love the smell of books.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

The air smelled of paper and dust and years.

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.

It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school. I'm pretty sure I remember it being assigned, and I generally did the reading. But I don't remember having a reaction to the book, even though I loved literature, and other works made a lasting impression on me at that age.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

I've gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it's, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you're having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older.

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

I love the smell of vanilla, but I didn't have perfumes growing up, so I wore vanilla extract.

I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.