Helene Hanff

I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

— Helene Hanff

“Have you got De Tocqueville's Journey to America? Somebody borrowed mine and never gave it back. Why is it that people who…

— Helene Hanff

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

— Helene Hanff

“I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for.”

— Helene Hanff

Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free ... the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing…

— Helene Hanff

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

— Helene Hanff

“i am going to bed. i will have nightmares involving huge monsters in academic robes carrying long bloody butcher knives labeled Excerpt,…

— Helene Hanff

I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it…

— Helene Hanff

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to…

— Helene Hanff

It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open…

— Helene Hanff

“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you…

— Helene Hanff

But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I…

— Helene Hanff