Book Quote by Helene Hanff Download Open image “I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.” — Helene Hanff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Inspirational Owners Pages
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.'… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
“By now, I probably preferred secondhand books to new ones. In America such items were disparagingly referred to as “previously owned”; but this very… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way I came upon a mews with a small sign on the entrance gate addressed to the passing world. The sign… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“I houseclean my books every spring and throw out those I'm never going to read again like I throw out clothes I'm never going… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller coming out… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“Please write and tell me about London, I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty sidewalks under… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books.… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
