As a young man he worked with Nancy Lancaster, an influential designer-decorator, and draws an evocative thumbnail sketch of her, as a woman who "spent money as freely as water from her garden hose", and her garden, with its tumbling roses and "Italian cypresses whose leaves smelt of paper in old books".
It's cold, and the place smells of old paper and woodsmoke.
I had misplaced my only copy, but amid the tiny rooms in this shop, smelling of old paper and leather, I located my replacement.
You get the smell of paper, the touch".
I write because I love the smell of paper, pen, and ink.
"I think, like, wood, or the smell of paper, or that kind of like foisty smell of an old attic," he said.
In his vision books will not disappear and neither will bookstores, which will become local shrines, still redolent with the smell of paper and glue.
Day by day I was imposing on myself the discipline of working on a table all day, enjoying the smell of paper and pen in a lonely room - habits that I will never ever lose.
'When printing was introduced in the 1300s, parchment reached its limits, partly because of expense and partly because of reproduction problems.' But Sophie Vandebroek, the vice-president of Xerox research and technology, concedes that people will always want the feel and smell of paper.
He likes the smell of paper or something weird like that.
