Books Quote by Helene Hanff

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or…

— Kelli O'Hara

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel…

— Laura Nowlin

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover…

— Richard Paul Evans

Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about.…

— John Wilson

“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out from between their pages – a special…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Helene Hanff

“A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even…

— Andre Dubus

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

The good of a book lies in its being read.

— Umberto Eco

“You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to make a…

— Yann Martel

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

— Linda Barnes

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