Book Quote by Helene Hanff

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.

— Helene Hanff

“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

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

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

“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated…

— Virginia Woolf

“Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's…

— Aidan Chambers

For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second…

— Siegfried Sassoon

I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the…

— Caroline B. Cooney

I love deliberately badly written books.

— Richard Prince

I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

— Mason Cooley

“People sometimes act as though owning books you haven't read constitutes a charade or pretense, but for me, there's a lovely mystery and pregnancy…

— Leah Price

To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think…

— Lionel Barrymore