Anthology Quote by 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 behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.” quote by Helene Hanff — Download Open image

“I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.”

Helene Hanff

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Anthology Behinds Book Book lover Books Leaving Leaving it behind Lovers Mark Pale Passages Pencils Pointing Sprinkles Unborn

More by Helene Hanff

“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

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

Image

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

Helene Hanff

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

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

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

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

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

Image

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

Helene Hanff

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

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

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

Image

Explore all 37 Helene Hanff quotes

More Anthology quotes

It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.

John Lithgow

Image

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

David Toop

Image

I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template…

Lorin Stein

Image

Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got…

David Bergen

Image

I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the introduction. I…

Jane Hirshfield

Image

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

Judith Guest

Image

No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology. But if…

Richard Meltzer

Image

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

Anonymous

Image

After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there…

Edward Hirsch

Image

Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never…

Jeff VanderMeer