Maurice Sendak Quotes

I even love the smell of books.

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.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

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

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

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.

Of all things I liked books best.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.

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